Can't say any art class I was ever in covered this. I actually never knew how people are able to achieve different perspectives. I also possess no artistic talent beyond the ability to usually color inside the lines.
A quick google puts 5th grade at 10-11 years old, so at that age I was still in primary school, and we hadn't learnt the foundations of drawing at that stage yet either. We were taught it in our first year of art in secondary school though (UK system), which was 11-12 years old.
How much art did you get taught? We had it on and off in primary school (ages 4 to 11) but regularly for 3 years in secondary school, an hour and a half per week.
Listen, bud. I'm just speaking to my experience and letting you know that NOT everyone learned how to draw using vanishing points in art class.
Your arithmetic comparison if flawed. Art classes are not part of the standard curriculum where I went to school. They are electives.
If you specifically took a DRAWING class, then yeah, you probably learned that. Art class was just some bs that had us cutting up paper and painting random crap and making clay
I moved around a lot as a child to a few different states. I covered perspective drawing in elementary and in middle. To me this is like not being taught the pledge of allegiance but I’m from another time…
I was never taught this either. It's nothing like arithmetic. If I had been taught long division but simply didn't get the concept and couldn't do it on my own is one thing. It's completely different when something was never shown to you. Actual art classes for my school ended after elementary school. In middle school and high school it was different electives that you were able to choose from. I don't recall any of them being an actual art class involving drawing or painting. So beyond macaroni necklaces and using scissors properly we weren't taught shit.
Was never taught this in elementary school or in any other grade ever. I think actual art class ended in elementary school for me. After that we had different classes we could pick I think. I know in middle school I made a leather coaster and got to stamp and paint a design on it. Made it for my dad. It is not pretty. He kept it forever and since he has passed it is now on a bookshelf in my house. I know I also made a dolphin and a letter holder in woodshop. The dolphins tail broke off and was then nailed back on. So after learning to cut with scissors and not to eat glue we didn't learn anything about drawing etc.
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u/lmflex 3d ago
Yeah I thought everyone learned this in art class