Perspective Vocabulary
One-Point Perspective
Two-Point Perspective
Surrealism Techniques
Surrealism
100
Technique used by artist to create a 3-D space in an artwork. Creates an illusion of depth on a flat surface.
What is Linear perspective
100
Identify where the vanishing point is.
What is the end of the walkway.
100
This type of perspective is being used in the drawing.
What is 2-point perspective.
100
Making objects see-through that are not usually
Transparency
100
True or False: "surreal" means to go beyond real
True
200
Type of perspective that has one vanishing point on the horizon line.
One-point perspective
200
In one point perspective, surfaces that face the viewer appear as their _____ _______, without any distortion. They are drawn using primarily horizontal and vertical lines
true shape
200
This drawing shows what?
A horizon line and two vanishing points
200
Changing an object's relative size
Scale
200
was an Art movement in the 1924-1950’s in Europe.
Surrealism
300
This is where the sky meets the ground. It is typically eye level.
What is a horizon line.
300
True or False: This is an example of one-point perspective.
What is true.
300
Objects below the horizon line are drawn as if...
looking down at it (you see the top of the object)
300
Taking an object from its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one
Dislocation
300
True or False: Salvador Dali was a famous surrealism artist
True
400
This area is on the horizon line and is where all of the converging lines meet and seem to "disappear".
What is a vanishing point.
400
Objects above the horizon line are drawn as if you are...
looking up at them (you see the bottom of the object)
400
Perspective that has 2 vanishing points on the horizon line. The converging lines disappear at these points.
What is 2-point perspective.
400
Floating objects that do not normally float
Levitation
400
True or False: In Surrealistic Art, you get a very unrealistic style of drawing or painting but things are arranged in ways that could never happen.
False: It is a very realistic style of drawing things arranged in an unusual way
500
the line you draw from the corner of an object to the vanishing point.
orthogonal line
500
Objects that are neither above nor below the horizon line are drawn as if...
you are looking directly at them (you see neither the top or the bottom of the object)
500
Instead of using a "true shape" to begin drawing an object in two-point perspective, you would begin with
A vertical line, or the "corner" of the object
500
Joining two images together in impossible combinations
Juxtaposition
500
A surrealism technique where you are changing objects in unusual ways
Transformation