Grazie a Romolo Venucci,
sommo professore che mi ha insegnato le prime rappresentazioni in perspettiva,
ed aperto gli orrizonti infiniti dell'arte.

The April 1990 cover page of Logo Exchange was dedicated to my students' perspective work.

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Editorial Note: The perspective drawings to this month's cover were done by students of Orlando Mihich, a science teacher at Junior High School #l 18 in New York City. He writes: My students got interested in perspective work after seeing my earth science drawings on the board, and after reviewing a book on Giorgio de Chirico. I explained the basic concepts of perspective drawing mainly during lunch hours and after school. Using the seth towards ", they drew lines looking towards a horizon, make "x pos helped them setpos :x for shading and so on. They came out with some quite interesting art work. The sphere was earlier used to represent atoms in a crystal lattice; here it is used to add a round, soft shape to otherwise straight towers and pyramids. The distant LogoWriter train is the mysterious, metaphysical part of De Chirico's world itself.

De Chirico was done by Michael Toribio, 9th grade; Morning Meditation was done by John Deveaux, 8th grade; and Yutz kin was done by Alex Acevedo, grade 9.

Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was the inventor of pittura metafisica (metaphysical painting), a unique and enigmatic style which served as the precursor to many artistic movements including Dada, Futurism, and Surrealism. His cartoon-like dreamscapes, featuring classical statues, Italian piazzas, sinister shadows, mannequins, geometric objects, and the odd artichoke or bunch of bananas, remind one of childhood drawings, but with a menacing edge. The bright golden yellows and turquoise blues attract the eyes, and the unexpected juxtapositions of architecture and objects capture the imagination.

 

 

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