Three-point perspective is used when an artist wants to project a “bird’s eye view”, that is, when the projection lines recede to two points on the horizon and a third either far above or below the horizon line. Third Court of the Topkapi Palace, from the Hunername, 1548, Ottoman miniature painting, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul As relatively spare as the left side of the work is, the artist crams the right side with hard-edged and organic shapes and forms in a complex play of positive and negative space.
Caillebotte includes the little metal arm at the top right of the post to direct us again along a horizontal path, now keeping us from traveling off the top of the canvas. In the midst of this visual recession a lamp post stands firmly in the middle to arrest our gaze from going right out the back of the painting. The figures are deliberately placed to direct the viewer’s eye from the front right of the picture to the building’s front edge on the left, which, like a ship’s bow, acts as a cleaver to plunge both sides toward the horizon. The artist’s composition, however, is more complex than just his use of perspective.
Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street in Rainy Weather uses two-point perspective to give an accurate view to an urban scene. Oliver Harrison, Two-point perspective with horizon and vanishing points Two-point perspective occurs when the vertical edge of a cube is facing the viewer, exposing two sides that recede into the distance, one to each vanishing point.
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