UNIT 2: TANGENTS

TANGENCY

WHAT IS A TANGENT? 

A tangent to a circle is a straight line that touches the circle at one point.

 

EXAMPLES OF TANGENCY IN ARTWORKS

                    

A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES OF TANGENCY IN THE REAL WORLD

EXAMPLES of drawings using TANGENTS   from www.plasticaiescampinaalta.blogspot.com

STREET ART UTOPIA

 Street Artist painting funny fake shadows to confuse people 

ACTIVITY/TAREA 1: ONE POINT LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

ACTIVITY: "ONE POINT LINEAR 

PERSPECTIVE"

Following the information and vídeos you have here, 

do your own drawing.

Do not forget to be as original and creative as you can. 

HISTORY OF LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

As you already know we live in a three-dimensional world:  

1. Height, 2. Length 3.Depth

We can change or viewpoint, trasnforming the way we see things. That way objects seem to be smaller of bigger depending whether we are close or far away from them. The same way objects might seem to vanish or disappear when we move around them or we move away from them. Light also plays a very interesting role in the way we perceive objects. 

3D OPTICAL ILLUSION

These are examples for our NEXT ACTIVITY (one point linear perspective): 

 

 

3D STREET ART: A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

The wife of 15th-century Italian artist Paolo Uccello used to beg him to come to bed. She was fed up of him staying up all night drawing objects with the new method of 3D illusion – or as it was called at the time, "perspective". He still wouldn't come to bed. "This perspective is such a sweet thing," he said.

PERSPECTIVE IN FILMS

WHO DO YOU CHOOSE TO BE?

This video, done by the film director: Juan Manuel Cotelo, was done in CoronaVirus times, but it can certainly be apply to our daily life. Food for though. Are you acting villain or hero? 

Here is a presentation with images from films that use one point linear perspectives, like Star Wars or Harry Potter. 

PERSPECTIVE IN FILMS