2-Point Perspective Drawing and

Architecture Unit7th Grade

What is perspective and how do artists use it in works of art?

What is 2-Point Perspective?

What is Architecture?

National Visual Arts StandardsVisual Arts Standard 2:Using knowledge of structures and functions

[5-8] Students employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effective in the communication of ideas

Visual Arts Standard 3:Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas

[5-8] Students integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks

[5-8] Students use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks

Visual Arts Standard 6:Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines

[5-8] Students compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context

[5-8] Students describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts

Student Objectives

By the end of this unit, you should be able to…

…define perspective, proportion, horizon line, vanishing point and orthogonal line.

…illustrate a word in 1-point perspective.

…draw architecture using 2-point perspective.

…identify and demonstrate the four shading techniques.

Student Objectives Continued

Students will be able to:

• recognize the elements of art and how they are used in a work of art.

• identify architectural elements in a work of art.

• describe how architectural elements relate to the landscape in the work of art.

• create a drawing in perspective, integrating architectural elements.

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Perspective Vocabulary

Two-Point Perspective: a way to show 3-D objects on a flat surface using two vanishing points.

The Temple of Hercules in Cori Near Velletri

Greek And Roman Architecture

A Step Back In Time

Ancient Greece and Rome

Ugh The Dreaded Vocabulary Part

Architrave – The lowest part of the entablature that sits directly on the capitals (tops) of the columns.

Column – An upright post, usually square, round, or rectangular. It can be used as a support or attached to a wall for decoration. In classical architecture, columns are composed of a capital, shaft, and a base, except in Doric order.

Columns?

A column was a huge stick that held the roof up.

The first columns were made of wood.

The Greeks ran out of wood.

They had a lot of rock, so they used rock instead of wood.

Cornice – The rectangular band above the frieze, below the pediment.

Capital – The top portion of a column. In classical architecture, the architectural order is usually identified by design of the capital (Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian).

Capitals are very large

Frieze – The wide rectangular section on the entablature, above the architrave and below the cornice. In the Doric order, the frieze is often decorated with triglyphs (altering tablets of vertical groves) and the plain, rectangular bands spaced between the triglyphs (called metopes).

Metopes –rectangular bands spaced between the triglyphs

Pediment – a classical element that forms a triangular shape above the entablature. The pediment is often decorated with statues and its sides can be curved or straight.

Tryglyphs – altering tablets of vertical groves

Temple of Hera at Paestum, Italy

Temple of Neptune at Paestum, Italy

Temple of Athena at Paestum, Italy

Where is Paestum?

It is near where my uncle is from