Representation of Depth in Art

Image via WikipediaRepresentation of depth…


• overlapping

• diminishing scale

• atmospheric or aerial perspective

• vertical placement

• linear perspective

• modelling

Pic - Satire on False Perspective by William Hogarth.

Happy Fete Nationale

Prise de la Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houel, who also did 'erotic' drawings of elephants, which is a creature even De Sade didn't get into his novels.

Be Influenced

Image via Wikipedia‘Be influenced by as many great artists as you can, but have the decency either to acknowledge the debt outright, or to try and conceal it’ - Ezra Pound

The drawing is a portrait of Ezra Pound by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)