Visual Language: Color, Texture, and Space · Drawing & Composition

Perspective and Spatial Depth

Introduction to techniques like overlapping and size variation to create the illusion of 3D space on a 2D surface.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does an artist convince our brains that a flat paper has depth?
  2. 2What artistic elements create the mood of vastness or isolation in a painting?
  3. 3How does the placement of objects on the horizon line change our point of view?

Common Core State Standards

NCAS: Creating VA.Cr2.1.4
Grade: 4th Grade
Subject: Visual & Performing Arts
Unit: Visual Language: Color, Texture, and Space
Period: Drawing & Composition

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