aerial perspective

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aerial perspective

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a means of indicating relative distance in terms of a gradation of clarity, tone, and colour, esp blue Also called atmospheric perspective

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art movement artistic movement atmospheric perspective luminism			It was a mere falsification of the law of aerial perspective, but it startled, almost terrified me. Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context I was quite patient; the grand open country all round me offered lessons of inestimable value in what we call aerial perspective. I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context In fact, tacit expectations of what would be done for him by uncle Featherstone determined the angle at which most people viewed Fred Vincy in Middlemarch; and in his own consciousness, what uncle Featherstone would do for him in an emergency, or what he would do simply as an incorporated luck, formed always an immeasurable depth of aerial perspective. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context			aeon aeonian Aeonium Aeonium haworthii Aepyceros Aepyceros melampus Aepyornidae Aepyorniformes aepyornis aequorin aer- aerate aerated Aerated bread aeration aerator Aerenchym aerenchyma aeri- aerial Aerial acid aerial ladder aerial ladder truck aerial mosaic Aerial navigation aerial perspective aerial picket aerial pingpong aerial port aerial port control center aerial port squadron Aerial railway aerial root Aerial roots Aerial sickness aerial top dressing aerial torpedo aerial tramway aerial yam aerialist Aeriality Aerially aerides aerie Aeriferous Aerification aeriform aerify aero aero engine aero-			Aerial Imagery Reconnaissance Tracking And Plotting System Aerial Images and Video Adventures Aerial interdiction Aerial Inversion Ride aerial ladder aerial ladder truck Aerial Magnetic Surveying Aerial Mail Terminal Aerial Maneuver Fighter Aerial Maneuver Technology Assessment Center Aerial mapping Aerial Measurement Station Aerial Measurement System Aerial Methods of Earth Study aerial mine Aerial Monitoring System aerial mosaic Aerial Multi-Mission Integrated Testbed aerial mycelium Aerial navigation Aerial Nurse Corps of America aerial observation Aerial observer aerial part aerial perspective Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network Aerial Phenomena Research Organization Aerial photo Aerial Photo Interpretation aerial photogrammetry Aerial photograph Aerial Photographic Interpretation Aerial Photographic Mapping Unit aerial photographic reconnaissance Aerial Photographic Survey Aerial photographs Aerial photography Aerial Photography Contract Management System Aerial Photography Field Office Aerial Photography Summary Record System aerial photomap aerial photomosaic aerial photoreconnaissance Aerial Phototopography aerial picket aerial pingpong Aerial plankton Aerial platform Aerial Point of Embarkation

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