Success in Art: Mastering Perspective

Introduction

The world around us exists in three dimensions, and it took several hundred years for artists to figure out how to depict this quality within the two-dimensional world of illustration.

When we look at early artwork from the pre-Renaissance period, we often see the world in rich detail and color but lacking depth. These works, while certainly masterpieces, have little representation of the three-dimensional world. Simply put, these early artists depicted people stiffly in place with little or no relation to the world around them.

One hundred years before Galileo experimented with gravity, and long before Sir Isaac Newton gave that ...