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atmospheric perspective

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atmospheric perspective
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) another term for aerial perspective


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The latest painting in the show, Landscape in Fog, 1996, joins brushy Japanese painting with Western commercial printing, using benday dots of various sizes to indicate atmospheric perspective.
It requires knowledge of color theory and atmospheric perspective.
The results are twofold: First, atmospheric perspective is eliminated; second, things that originally lay one behind the other now lie next to each other on the same spatial plane.
 
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