About the video: From Prehistoric Art to Greeks and Romans: Creating Vanishing Point Perspective
Overview
“Here I tell you about the many attempts to represent the 3D reality on a 2D flat plan in art history. I will start from the most ancient art masterpieces, like this image in this Chauvet cave in France, where it is possible already to see many wonderful solutions to solve the problem. After considering prehistoric art, I will tell you about space representation in Sumerian and Egyptian Art, with many things in common and a kind of a psychological perspective, somehow like in children's drawings. I will tell you about Greeks and Romans attempts in creating the vanishing points perspective technique. ”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: From Prehistoric Art to Greeks and Romans: Creating Vanishing Point Perspective, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Drawing Specialization: From Sketching to Digital Visualization. Learn conceptual architectural sketching, translating abstract ideas into coherent, creative drawings using freehand techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“From Prehistoric Art to Greeks and Romans: Creating Vanishing Point Perspective In this lesson, I will tell you about perspective or better, a vision of reality in art history, from prehistoric times to Roman times. We begin from prehistoric times and we are very far away in time. We are speaking about this wonderful example you can find in the Chauvet cave in France. You can see here cave paintings from 37,000 years ago, so very old. These are wonderful and very interesting for us because you can see how prehistoric men, our ancestors, were looking at the reality and how they were able to ...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Drawing Specialization: From Sketching to Digital Visualization
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Architectural Illustration, Architecture, Digital Architecture, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketching

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