While watching the Masters of Illusion video I was very intrigued. I've always loved perspective, it's one of my favorite elements to use in photography, but I never really knew about everyone who started up the idea of perspective and the way we see things in art.
I was familiar with Da Vinci and Rafael the most, but most of the others, especially before their time, I had never heard of. But I am so glad with the brilliance that they had in that time and what they have created through new minds in their far future, and what can still be done in our future thanks to their minds.
Shadowing is a funny thing. You see a shadow and see what's happening but don't truly understand it. When you actually try to achieve this effect through sketching, it's something completely new. I know that this was a fun part of Drawing for Design, a class I took last semester with Margie. I had always loved pictures and paintings that incorporate perspective and shadow and wanted to know how I could achieve that. I wasn't great at it in class, and still am not so great, but if I were to keep trying and look back to the great minds of the past, I could perfect the illusion.
All in all the video really got me to thinking about everything in art and how everything has unique perspective elements and shadowing. It all just depends on how we see it.
I am a student at the University of Kansas majoring in Photo Media and minoring in Mass Communications (News and Info). I love all styles of art and showing what I create and what others have created that inspires me and I would like to share that with you.
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