Then all shadows disappear, the
foreshortening of perspective disappears, and all proofs become white-- a disagreeable fact: for this strange region would have been marvelous if reproduced with photographic exactness.
Indeed, except in respect of staring about him (a branch of the public service to which the pictorial cherub is much addicted), this domestic cherub discharged as many odd functions as his prototype; with the difference, say, that he performed with a blacking-brush on the family's boots, instead of performing on enormous wind instruments and double-basses, and that he conducted himself with cheerful alacrity to much useful purpose, instead of
foreshortening himself in the air with the vaguest intentions.
For these two men on the tower were left alone with the most terrible aspect of Gothic; the monstrous
foreshortening and disproportion, the dizzy perspectives, the glimpses of great things small and small things great; a topsy-turvydom of stone in the mid-air.
This led to the definition of
foreshortening which is described as an obvious shortening of the figure or form in relation to the angle from which they are observed.
All the tricks of academic illusionism were in play: chiaroscuro,
foreshortening, compositional geometry, detail, the depth perspective of Renaissance history painting.
LIFE-SIZE ASTRONAUTS: A LESSON IN
FORESHORTENING How is it possible for fourth-grade students to draw life-size self-portraits that are dressed in the bulky suit of an astronaut, on a piece of 18" x 24" paper?
* Hassam makes numerous uses of perspective in this picture, the most noticeable of which are "convergence" and "
foreshortening"--both are described in "This Painting" on page 36.
ALl the other buildings appear much narrower than they really are because of a perspective effect called
foreshortening. When objects stretch away into the distance, distortion by
foreshortening increases.
The father will exhibit five paintings in his favourite Cubism style that reflects his passion for geometric shapes and his rejection of the concept that artists should adopt the traditional techniques of perspective, modeling, and
foreshortening. His work, in which he uses oil colours, distances itself from the idea that art should copy nature.
Incorrect vertical angulation errors can cause either elongation or
foreshortening.
The choral complement was huge, but sang with a lightness of touch, Mirga mouthing every word of the English text off pat,
foreshortening long notes in order to spice the rhythm, and with an exhilaration which could only enhance the exuberance of the proceedings.
