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THE ART OF CLASS # _______

ILLUSION ART HISTORY NOTES

OPTICAL MEANS:
OP ART MOVEMENT
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ILLUSION MEANS:
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OP ART IS A UNIQUE TYPE OF
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___________________________________ OP ART CREATES AN ___________ !!!
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___________________________________ FAMOUS OP ART ARTISTS:
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ANAMORPHOSIS DEFINITION
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary:
A ___________ or monstrous projection or representation of
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an image on a _______ or _________surface, which, when
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viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved
mirror or through a polyhedron, __________ ______ and in ______________________________
proportion; a _______________ of an image. ______________________________
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MODERN ILLUSION ARTISTS
trompe l'oeil definition:
visual _________ in art, especially as used to
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detail as a three-dimensional object & or space.
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OPTICAL ART TECHNIQUES (10 pts each)
1. DRAW/COMPLETE EACH STEP
2. FILL IN THE BLANKS FOR THE STEPS
M.C. Escher Bio
Full Name: _________________________________
Born—Where: _______________When: __________
What helped him to survive school? ____________
M.C. Escher built and designed complex structures
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simulation, or ________technology to create his drawings. This
caused his drawings to look VERY _______.
Escher’s idea of reality was not like anyone else’s. “The subjects
he chose were seen from _________ angles, as ___________
close-ups, or __________ reflections.”
1950’s his fame began to spread. ________________ is a system
for creating the __________ of depth on a flat surface and Escher
_____________ perspective to construct his impossible worlds.
The artist created ____________ vistas with ______ or _______
vanishing points (the point on the eye-level line where the
receding lines appear to meet), scenes in which up is down and
left is right, and perspectives that curve in ways that are not
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M.C. Escher died in _________ at the age of ______.
FAVORITE ESCHER QUOTE (Choose one from the reading:)
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