- Choose one of the following options and complete the assignment.
- Be sure to use complete sentences and standard English spelling and grammar in your submissions.
- Be sure to refer to required readings and supplementary material in your submission and include citations when appropriate.
- Label your assignment option number in your submission.Option 1: Study Dosio’s perspective drawing Church of Saint Spirito at Florence (1.1.2a). Watch this video https://youtu.be/ggpKKlsaeac .
- Summarize Dosio’s use of line in this work, and compare the accuracy of line with that of the modern photograph of the church (1.1.2b).
- Start with the descriptive characteristics of line.
- Also, be sure to summarize the linear perspective (see Chapter 1.3) aspects of the church design.
- Compare how the artist used form, volume, mass, and texture.
- How did this assignment help to reinforce concepts in this chapter of the textbook?
Option 2:
Find pictures on the Internet of four objects that have no visual relationships: if one is long and thin, there should not be another long, thin object in the group, and so on. Be conscious of height, width, length, color, value, texture, orientation, symbolism, etc.
Once you have collected these pictures, copy and paste them into a word document, making sure that they are not organized in a repetitive system. Review your collection and find as many similarities you can. Your list should include a minimum of 5 similarities.
Upload the images and then answer these questions (refer to required readings and supplementary material in your submission and include citations when appropriate.):
- Do you think that it is possible to avoid having some unity in a work of art?
- Why, or why not?
- How did this assignment help to reinforce concepts in this chapter of the textbook?