Ed Ruscha’s screen print Standard
Station was created in perfect two point perspective. One of the 2 points
(the right point) in Standard Station is in the precise bottom
right corner. All the right edges of the building meet at this point. The left point is
so far to the left that it is off the picture. The horizon line is along the bottom
edge of the picture.
Here’s the way to analyze a picture
and tell whether it is in one, two, or three point perspective. Imagine that you are
holding up an imaginary window right in front of your eyes and looking through it at a
picture. Artists call this imaginary window your picture plane. If the box or building
that you are looking at in the picture is positioned so that a whole wall or surface of
the building is flat against your picture plane, then the building is in one point
perspective. If an edge of the building (where one wall meets another wall) is flat
against your picture plane, then the building is in 2 point perspective. That is the
way it is in Standard Station. If only one corner of the building
would touch your picture plane, then the building is in three point perspective. This
is how artists analyze the rectangular solids around them to determine which point
system to use when drawing or painting a picture.
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