8th Grade Art: Linear Perspective Room: Surreal Style

INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR PERSPECTIVE:

Renaissance History:

Important Artists mentioned:

• Brunelleschi: "Rediscovers Linear Perspective"
• Alberti:  Writes a Linear Perspective Code in his book, 'On Painting'

Modern Artists that uses Linear Perspective:

THIS GUY: Still a fairly traditional approach...

THIS GUY: Mixing drawing linear perspective for video

 THIS GUY: Using Tromp L'Oeil for wall murals!  SO COOL!

Your Project:  Surreal Room in 1 point perspective

You are going to draw a room using 1 point perspective but add a Surreal Twist.  The purpose of Surreal Art is to bring 'dream-like imagery' into reality!  This video explains this in a great way:

SO, you are going to draw a realistic room, that has some weird aspects to it.... liiiike this...