Category: Space

Inspired by Holbein’s The Ambassadors.

We liked the weird distorted painting of the skull at the Ambassadors’ feet. So we tried to make our own ‘anamorphic’ pictures. Can you work out what is the best perspective to view them from?

We looked at how Hogarth represented space in Chairing the Member. We decided what we thought was foreground, middleground and background then cut the picture up to show it. We also used an editing app to magnify some of the things we noticed in the painting.

Here’s a link to the original painting by William Hogarth: Chairing the Member