{"id":457,"date":"2011-03-28T21:55:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T03:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-03-28T21:55:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T03:55:04","slug":"old-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"old modern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/alberti-perspective-abstract.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-458\" title=\"alberti perspective abstract\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/alberti-perspective-abstract.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/alberti-perspective-abstract.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/alberti-perspective-abstract-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/alberti-perspective-abstract-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This sketch is the eighty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day eighty-seven: <\/strong>Three hours in math class inspired the idea of academically constructing perspective and proportion for today&#8217;s sketch. As I walked to the parking ramp at the U of M, I decided to use the methods 15th-century theorist Leon Battista Alberti described as &#8220;correct.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know about the correctness, per se, but the exercise was fascinating. My composition includes the visual products of two steps in Alberti&#8217;s process within a single composition. The geometry in the top half is used to determine some measurements, but then discarded. When I finished all the measuring and line drawing, I decided it needed some color, which gives it the modern feel of a 20th-century constructivist painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch is the eighty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026 Day eighty-seven: Three hours in math class inspired the idea of academically constructing perspective and proportion for today&#8217;s sketch. As I walked to the parking ramp at the U of M, I decided to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[18,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}