The illusion of Depth in Stained Glass: Exposed to the light

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Robert N. Oddy, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

7-1-2011

Keywords

Stained glass, art, stained glass artwork.

Disciplines

Art and Design

Description/Abstract

Stained glass artwork often looks flat. Of course, most stained glass panels are flat. What I mean is that the objects depicted look flat. In my own work, I have given a lot of attention to creating the illusion of depth. What is depth? It refers to the spacial dimension that recedes directly away from our eyes into the distance. If a picture has depth, we see some of its elements as solid objects; some appear closer than others; we are aware of foreground, middle distance and background.

Additional Information

The downloadable article is the final manuscript of the article, The illusion of Depth in Stained Glass: Exposed to the light published in Glass Patterns Quartely: Glass Art. All rights reserved to the author, Robert Oddy. The article is under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Licenses

Recommended Citation

Oddy, Robert N., "The illusion of Depth in Stained Glass: Exposed to the light" (2011). School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship. 161.
https://surface.syr.edu/istpub/161

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