This student is creating an image for the EXPLORE: Renaissance lesson of our Curriculum. At this point in the Curriculum, our students have learned many important fundamental skills and are able to create work in a similar manner to those done by the Masters during the Renaissance period.

During this period, artists used perspective to create the illusion of distance and composed their paintings in such a way to guide the viewer's eye around the image slowly and evenly.

VOCABULARY:

Anatomy: a study of the structure or internal workings of the human body

Proportion: the relationship of one thing to another in terms of size

Perspective: the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point

Humanism: a Renaissance movement that revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought