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  2. Anamorphosis - Wikipedia

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    Anamorphic street art by Manfred Stader. While not as widespread in contemporary art, anamorphosis as a technique has been used by contemporary artists in painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, film and video, digital art and games, holography, [1] street art and installation. The latter two art forms are largely practised in public ...

  3. The Basket of Apples - Wikipedia

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    The Basket of Apples (French: Le panier de pommes) is a still-life oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne, which he created c. 1893. The painting rejected naturalistic representation in favor of distorting objects to create multiple perspectives. This approach eventually influenced other art movements, including Fauvism and Cubism.

  4. El Greco fallacy - Wikipedia

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    The El Greco fallacy is typically a perceptive fallacy, where it is assumed that particular perceptual abnormalities will influence interactions with the world of a similar nature. It is named after an erroneous explanation for the vertically distorted painting style of El Greco , which held that the artist must have seen the world as distorted ...

  5. Kenneth Martin (English painter) - Wikipedia

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    From 1946-51 Martin was teaching at St John's Wood Art School and afterwards was a visiting teacher at Goldsmith's School of Art until 1968. In 1951 also, he and his wife produced Broadsheet 'devoted to abstract art', which contained reproductions of their work and essays defining their new direction.

  6. Organic Abstraction - Wikipedia

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    Organic Abstraction is an artistic style characterized by "the use of rounded or wavy abstract forms based on what one finds in nature." [1] It takes its cues from rhythmic forms found in nature, both small scale, as in the structures of small-growth leaves and stems, and grand, as in the shapes of the universe that are revealed by astronomy and physics. [2]

  7. Hockney–Falco thesis - Wikipedia

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    The hypothesis that technology was used in the production of Renaissance Art was not much in dispute in early studies and literature. [4]In his treatise on perspective, early Baroque painter Cigoli (1559 – 1613) expressed his belief that a more likely explanation of the origin of painting lies in people conserving the image of the camera obscura by applying colours and tracing the contours ...

  8. Grotesque - Wikipedia

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    Grotesque studies, Michelangelo Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.

  9. Perspective (graphical) - Wikipedia

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    Artists may choose to "correct" perspective distortions, for example by drawing all spheres as perfect circles, or by drawing figures as if centered on the direction of view. In practice, unless the viewer observes the image from an extreme angle, like standing far to the side of a painting, the perspective normally looks more or less correct.