What Is Perspective in Art?

Perspective is an art technique for creating an illusion of three-dimensions (depth and space) on a two-dimensional (flat) surface. Perspective is what makes a painting seem to have form, distance, and look "real." The same rules of perspective apply to all subjects, whether it's a landscape, seascape, still life, interior scene, portrait, or figure painting.

Perspective in Western art is often called linear perspective and was developed in the early 15th century. 

Viewpoint is the spot (point) from which you, the artist, is looking at  the scene. Linear perspective is worked out according to this viewpoint.

Vanishing lines are imaginary lines used to create accurate perspective in a painting. They are drawn on the top and bottom horizontal edges of an object, along the object and then extended to the horizon line. For instance, on a building, there would be a vanishing line along the top of the roof and the bottom of the wall(s). For a window, the top and bottom of the frame.

What’s an aesthetic perspective?

Aesthetic Perspectives themes will enable students to: Aerial or Atmospheric Perspective

What  Is  a  Vanishing  Point In Art?

The horizon is set at an infinite distance where two parallel lines converge. The converging point is called the vanishing point.

The number of vanishing points determines the characteristics of different types of perspective drawing techniques, one point, two point, and three point perspective technique

The Perspective Technique

Perspective technique is devised to draw three space onto the two dimensional flat plane. It is a technique to systematically draw the appearance of objects which diminish and converge as the distance increases from the viewer.

Three basic types of perspective –

one-point, two-point, and three-point -- refer to the number of vanishing points used to create the perspective illusion

One-point perspective consists of a single vanishing point and recreates the view when one side of the subject, such as a building, sits parallel to the picture plane

• The simplest way to see this is in a one-point perspective drawing. In it, all of the horizontal and vertical lines of the primary plane run straight with the paper. The lines that move away from us, the sides of boxes, the road we are on, or the railway lines in front of us, converge towards the center of the picture. These are called orthogonal lines, a term derived from mathematics. The center point is the vanishing point.

Two-point perspective

Two-point perspective uses one vanishing point on either side of the subject, such as a painting in which the corner of a building faces the viewer. Two-point perspective is the most commonly used.

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• In two-point perspective, our subject is angled so that each of the two sides, left and right, have their vanishing point..

1. Three-point perspective works for a subject viewed from above or below. Three vanishing points depict the effects of perspective occurring in three directions.
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In a three-point perspective, each of the vanishing points can be even more extreme. This leads to a problem about where to place your vanishing points for reference.Artists have a few tricks to help them solve this issue. Many who have a great deal of experience simply imagine where their vanishing points are. This, however, comes with years of practice and a great understanding of correct perspective.

• 1.  Identify and describe the emotional, intellectual, psychological, and/or kinesthetic effects of their interactions with various forms of creative expression
• 2.      Analyze the structural components of various forms of creative expression
• 3.      Interpret forms of creative expression within various theoretical frameworks
• 4.      Analyze how products of creative expression reflect, respond to, and shape their social, religious, political, and/or intellectual contexts
• 5.      Analyze how cultural and personal aesthetic criteria affect the processes of creation and interpretation

 http://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/html/10.11648.j.ijsts.s.2015030201.33.html

NON LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

The techniques provide visual effects which break the laws of the traditional linear perspective technique. The curvilinear projection technique is shown to be a visual simulation of lens distortions. The inverse perspective projection technique is introduced which reverses the effects of perspective technique

A wide variety of visual expression possible through the nonlinear perspective projection techniques, which enrich the visual work of computer graphics artists and designers

https://www.liveabout.com/definition-of-perspective-2577690

 

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Journalism is a ‘unique vocation

Journalism is not a profession – Journalism is a ‘unique vocation’ to serve the truth and hold a mirror to the contemporary happenings in a society

Journalism has always been looked upon as a mission to serve people —Primarily, it is a public service. 

Journalism has always been looked upon as a mission to serve people—Primarily,  it is a public service. Journalism is ultimately a ‘unique vocation’ to serve the truth and hold a mirror to the contemporary happenings in a society. The press has been described as the ‘Fourth Pillar’ and ‘Watchdog of Democracy’ because of the critical role it can play in protecting the interests of the people and moulding public opinion. 

The critical role journalism plays in protecting democracy and in serving the larger good of the society, the profession must maintain highest ethical, moral and reporting standards.

10 qualities to the journalists to be successful in JOURNALISM. They are: 

• Be Joyful
• Be Objective
• Be Unbiased
• Be Responsible
• Be a Nationalist
• Be Artistic
• Be a Lifelong Learner
• Be Inquisitive
• Be Strong
• Be Mindful 

Journalists enjoy certain privileges

While the press and journalists enjoy certain privileges like easy access to the corridors of power, these privileges reciprocally demand responsibilities from the Press and the journalists. They may make constructive criticism of the governmental policies, but at the same time they are morally and constitutionally obliged to strengthen the democratic institutions and respect the socio-cultural ethos. It should be remembered that the Freedom of Speech and Expression enshrined in our constitution is not absolute, but bound by reasonable restrictions. 

Over the years, the media has grown and the present media landscape is full of varieties and driven by market, competition and technology.  In this new ‘smart media environment’ with unprecedented flood of information, we need to be ‘smart media consumers’!  

In view of the critical role journalism plays in protecting democracy and in serving the larger good of the society, the profession must maintain highest ethical, moral and reporting standards. Journalists must never shirk from the core principles of journalism like independence and objectivity and shun unhealthy practices such as sensationalism. 

Of late, the undesirable practices of mixing news with views, partisan reportage and paid news have crept into journalism. The sooner such practices are eliminated the better it would be for journalists and the society at large. There should not be any compromise on the core values of journalism and practitioners of this profession must carry out their duties without fear or favour. 

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Beauty!

A popular quote from the 3^rd century and true to anything you happen to be beholding.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 

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From a subjective stance, beauty is what you make of it, what your preference is, what calls to your heart, soul and mind.

In objective view(Object views are often what society has decided is so.) is ' beauty means perfection, absolute precision and the essence of purity'.  

Leo Tolstoy, a Great Russian author, sums up art beautifully –
“The activity of art is based on the capacity of people to infect others with their own emotions and to be infected by the emotions of others. 
Strong emotions, weak emotions, important emotions or irrelevant emotions, good emotions or bad emotions – if they contaminate the reader, the spectator, or the listener – it attains the function of art.”

Winckelmann, a German Art Historian, 
claimed that beauty boiled down to three key factors 
The beauty of form,The beauty of an idea,The beauty of expression, which, he says, is only possible in the presence of the first two factors.

So then, beauty must be the highest form of expression and in turn, the highest aim of art.

Another visionary, Victor Cherbuliez, saw art as an activity which

• satisfies our innate love of images
• introduces ideas into these images
• And gives pleasure simultaneously to our senses, heart and reason. 

By his interpretation of art, beauty is then just an illusion.
 Beauty, possibly, doesn’t exist and there is no absolute beauty in this world.

Beauty is what we see as characteristic and harmonious.

Every piece of art, whether a painting, a vase or a statue, will have different colours, lines and textures which will appeal to your soul and heart.
What feelings these art pieces bring about in you, will in turn help you to decide whether the art is beautiful or not.

Source:

1. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/what-is-art/
2. https://www.fthinking.org/art-photo/beauty-art-creation/
3.  https://www.artway.eu/content.php?id=1090&lang=en&action=show
4. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/what-is-art/ 
5. https://www.theartist.me/design/what-beauty-art/
6. https://www.theartist.me/design/what-beauty-art/
7. https://www.fthinking.org/art-photo/beauty-art-creation/

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JOURNALISM AS A PROFESSION/Qualities of a Journalist

 The profession of journalism now attracts a lot of able and talented students.

                Qualities of a Journalist
Journalism requires a special bent of mind. 

The first requirement of journalism as a profession is a keen interest in current events or day to day happenings. 

• A journalist must understand political, social and economic movements going on in the country and abroad. 
• He must take active interest in current events and have a good understanding of history and geography to develop a proper perspective.  I
• In fact, a journalist has to be a well-read and learned man.   He must have a well-stocked mind. 
• He has to be awake, alert and active. 
• He must possess a sound memory. 
• He must have an analytical mind.               
• A journalist must have original thinking in the face of events that take place from time to time. 
• He has to interpret, explain and comment on events. 
• He must read extensively and assimilate facts. 
• A journalist has a noble task to perform. 
• He must present facts before the people. 
• He is an educator. 
• He has to form and build public opinion. 
• He must have an independent way of thinking. 
• He must have the courage of his conviction. 
• He must not be biased or prejudiced against anybody or any organisation. 
• He must have an insight into human mind. 
• He must live and move among people to study their mode of living.  A good journalist combines in him all these qualities of head and heart.
• A journalist must supposed to perform an important social duty. 

His duty is to educate the masses properly in respect of their rights and duties. 

Also, he has to present, the facts of day-to-day life without and bias or interest. 

He has to keep his own personal prejudices away from what he is writing. 

He should guard against being exploited by those who are in power. 

Political influence or the power of wealth should not frighten or force a journalist into writing with some hidden motive. 

This requires a lot of courage, a strong conviction and a true sense of patriotism and humanism.

A good journalist is never distort facts, spread baseless rumours and exaggerates things

               Journalism is a noble and challenging profession Journalism is a developing and expanding profession.   In the wake of multi-channel T.V. programmes, journalism is holding a great promise to honest young man and woman. Those who are good at creative writing should adopt journalism as a profession or as a hobby.  

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