Blog#6

This piece is a drawing by Claude Monet called Maisons prés de la mer. In this drawing the artist is creating space by using linear perspective. This is when the artist is creating a illusion of distance. This is done by using a vanishing point. Here I can see the side of the house and the front of the house. Next to that house I can see other houses along side of it. On the left of the drawing there seems to be a gray wall going down opposite side of the houses. The wall and the houses are both going down and fading to the background. In the background of this drawing there lays the vanishing point. Monet also shows creating space by using relative size or scale, which is when an object gets smaller the further distance it is. Here Monet does this when the houses. The first house looks average looking but as you look further down the houses next to it look smaller then that first house. Monet does this to show distance. The same thing with the gray wall on the opposite side, it gets smaller as you look towards the background of the drawing. The middle ground seems to show the most of Monet creating space. In the middle ground you can see as the objects in size get smaller which makes them seem distant, giving me as the viewer a sense of distance.