Perspective may be acquired where applied--Representing: a Reference, or a Position/Association, or the Location . . . . or an Understanding, a View, the Arrangement/Organization, a Quality, an Effect, a Principle . . . . or a Comparison, a Tone, the Design, the Approach, a Function, or a Meaning, etc.
Perspective may be achieved through Context, Project Development, Observation, Circumstance, Series, Repetition, Influence, Recapitulation, Imitation, Survey, Focus, Shift, Exposure, etc. As these factors may Influence a fit, a clarity, an appropriateness, color, a proportion, and any one of many aspects of visual/conceptual and affective relationshipsarrived at through the materials, process, elements, principles, theory, approach, etc.
Perspective may have Emotional, or Topical, or Conceptual, Traditional Theoretical, Aesthetic, Technical/Functional, Historic, Scientific, Social, Personal or other emphasis or purpose --in establishing Relationship, Thought, Appreciation, Consideration, Principles, Laws, Conventions, Techniques, etc. The tone of such a perspective may have Breadth, Commonality, Synthesis, Simplicity, Clarity, Essence. . . .etc.
Perspective may be the technique or process of representing on a plane or curved surface the spatial relation of objects as they might appear to the eye ; specif: representation in a drawing or painting of parallel lines as converging in order to give the illusion of depth and distance
Developments in the understanding and use of perspective may proceed through a general appreciation of visual experience and proceed specific to certain materials and interest, or skill in a discipline, disciplines, or understanding of categories of visual arts experience - may be related to Historic, Cultural, Practical, Conceptual, Theoretical, Social or Topical orientations in personal or professional experience, and may be discerned generally or specific to a determined focus.
C O N S I D E R
Seen through . . . . [what] . . . .
Interrelationships
Establishing Points of reference
The ability to see all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship
View or prospect through relevant data, facts, ideas
Representing
Depicting
Picturing
Vista
Scene
View
Prospect
Appearance in respect to relative positions
Spatial Relationships
Teaching perspective is similar to teaching sensitivity to color in that in neither case does an intellectual approach assure the teacher that personally expressive use will follow . . . . Children can have their attention directed to the fact that distance may be achieved through overlapping, diminution of size, consistency of vertical edges, atmospheric perspective or neutralization of receding color, and convergence of line. This knowledge, however, has only limited value if the children are not able to see the many ways in which perspective may be used . . . .
l. The Oriental placement of objects, which usually disregards the deep, penetrating space of Western art. See Wong's 'The Tao of Chinese Landscape Painting' [Wong, Wucius. The Tao of Chinese Landscape Painting, Principles & Methods. New York: Design Press. 1991.] and See 'Space and Perspective' in Walberg Tradition and Innovation. Essays in Minoan Art. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp Von Zabern. 1986.
2. The Renaissance use of linear perspective, with its vanishing points and diminishing verticals and horizontals. See Alberti's 'On Painting' [Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting. [First appeared 1435-36] Translated with Introduction and Notes by John R. Spencer. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1970 [First printed 1956]].
3. Cubist dissolution of Renaissance-type space, with its substitution of multiple views, shifting planes, and disregard of "local" (realistic) color.
4. Photographic techniques using aerial views, linear perspective, and unusual points of view in landscape subjects.
[Notes from: Gaitskell, Charles D., Al Hurwitz, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Michael Day, Univ. of Minnesota, eds. Drawing and Painting. In Children and Their Art, Methods for The Elementary School, Fourth Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1982.]
R E F E R E N C E S
1 Perspective n [ME perspectyf, fr. ML perspectivum, fr. neut. of perspectivus of sight, optical, fr. L perspectus, pp. of perspicere to look through, see clearly, fr. per- through + specere to look -more at PER., Spy] [14c] archaic: an optical glass [as a telescope]
2 Perspective n [MF, prob. modif. of OIt prospettiva, fr. prospetto view, prospect, fr. L prospectus -more at Prospect] [1563] 1a: the technique or process of representing on a plane or curved surface the spatial relation of objects as they might appear to the eye ; specif: representation in a drawing or painting of parallel lines as converging in order to give the illusion of depth and distance b: a picture in perspective 2a: the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed [places the issues in proper __]; also: Point of View b: the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance [urge you to maintain your __ and to view your own task in a larger framework -W. J. Cohen] 3a: a visible scene: esp: one giving a distinctive impression of distance: Vista b: a mental view or prospect [to gain a broader __ on the international scene -Current Biog.] 4: the appearance to the eye of objects in respect to their relative distance and positions
3 Perspective adj [ME, optical, fr. ML perspectivus] [1570] 1obs: aiding the vision [his eyes should be like unto the wrong end of a __ glass -Alexander Pope] 2: of, relating to, employing, or seen in perspective [__ drawing]
[Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Springfield, MA, USA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1995.]
Perspective. [ME < ML perspectiva (ars) optical (science), perspectivum optical glass, n. uses of fem. and neut. of perspectivus optical < L perspect[us] seen through [see Per-, Inspect] + -ius -IVE]
n, 1. a technique of depicting volumes and spacial relationships on a flat surface. Cf. linear perspective. 2. a picture employing this technique. 3. a visible scene, esp. one extending to a distance; vista. 4. the manner in which objects appear to the eye in respect to their relative positions and distance. 5. one's mental view of facts, ideas, etc ., and their interrelationships. 6. the ability to see all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship. 7. a mental view or prospect. -adj. 8. of or pertaining to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws.
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House,1968.]
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