When Hitler was made the Counselor of Germany in 1933, one of the first things he did was attack the art styles of Cubism, Futurism, and Dadaism due to its so-called degenerative qualities. Hitler, being a self proclaimed “art connoisseur”, thought that the only acceptable forms of art were classical portraits and landscapes of Germanic origin. Due to the severe dislike of “modern” art, Hitler plundered all forms of “modern art” from the occupants of Europe and then destroyed or sold it( though other Nazi dignitaries did keep some of the art for their private collections). The money from these sales would then be used to fund a Hitler-approved art museum in Linz. In the 1940s, the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives organization was founded to help find and protect the plundered art that still remained in Europe. The workers for the MFAA group were called "Monuments Men” and faced the challenges of stopping allied forces from sending recovered art with“off-limits” signs to their family back home. Eventually, the MFAA started to use white tape(tape indicating mines in a certain area) to seal off an area that had a lot of art. The MFAA has recovered about 700,000 pieces of art throughout its existence and is still trying to recover the estimated 100,000 other pieces of art missing.
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This semester I learned about horizon lines and vanishing points. These aspects of drawing significantly improved my drawing skill! A horizon line is a line horizontal at the vanishing point or points and this line usually is where the sky meets up with the land in the background of the picture. A vanishing point is the point or points where all lines that will point toward. For example, if
you are drawing a picture of a table right in front of you and the vanishing point is in the background then the sides of the table will point toward to the vanishing point. You can have multiple vanishing points as well. We worked on two point perspective which has two vanishing points and three point perspective which, you guessed it, has three vanishing points. When multiple vanishing points exist you must think logically and figure out which lines will point toward each vanishing point. For three point perspective, there are two vanishing points like normal and one vanishing point that is either above the horizon line or below the horizon line. All vertical lines will point towards this point and all horizontal lines will point toward the other two. By doing this technique I was able to hone my drawing ability. All pictures from: http://www.watercolorpainting.com/perspective_1_2_3_point.htm |
AuthorWritten by art students of North High School in Evansville, Indiana Archives
December 2013
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