Examples and explanation of perspective in art

2. This image shows a scene with 'one-point' perspective.
The road converges to a single point in the distance,
known as the 'vanishing point'.

4. The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello was painted in
about 1440. It is a 6’ x 10’7” egg tempera with walnut oil and
linseed oil on poplar painting. Notice the foreground, middle
ground and background (distant) figures.

6. Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel-the-elder, 1525-1569

7. Copying and pasting the man in the middle ground and placing him next
to the man in the foreground highlights the use of perspective in Pieter
Bruegel's painting.

8. Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1525-1569 Children's Games

9. The Numbering at Bethlehem after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

11. “Atlanta Beltline” by Corey Barksdale
(The artist is sitting in front of his artwork.)

12. “One Point
Perspective”
by Donna
Howell-
Sickles of
Texas, USA

13. Anime-style person in perspective

14. Perspective in video game art: Cave Story 3-d

16. “A Dream She
Had”
by Craig Blair
– oil paint

17. “The Tree”
by
Craig Blair

18. “Anubus and the City” by Craig Blair

20. Jamaican artist Roy Reid - “A Pig Is
A Pig” - 1986

21. Jamaican artist – Rudi Patterson

22. “The
Market
Vendor” A
painting by
Guyana-
born artist
Joan
Bryan-
Muss

30. Muralist at work on a large-scale
wall painting (mural)

31. Perspective in a mural project, in Knoxville USA (artist unknown, currently)

32. A 'trompe l'oeil' mural in Quebec, Canada (artist unknown, currently)

33. Wall painting (mural) by 'trompe l’oeil' painter Patrick Kirwin

34. Exam tips:
* Do one foreground, one middle
ground and one background
(distant) version of the same object/
person, going from large to smaller,
to even smaller.
*Background (distance) parts of the
picture can be painted in paler
colours (e.g. 'tints' of the brighter
foreground colours.