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  2. Aerial perspective - Wikipedia

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    In art, especially painting, aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective [5] refers to the technique of creating an illusion of depth by depicting distant objects as paler, less detailed, and usually bluer than near objects. This technique was introduced in painting by Leonardo da Vinci to portray what was observed in nature and evident in ...

  3. Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God - Wikipedia

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    There is also the symmetrical focal point with atmospheric perspective around the subject, a radial balance of light arranged around a central element, and dramatic contrasts with dark colours on the periphery. Copernicus's epiphany or ecstasy is captured through the use of quasi stage lighting.

  4. Outline of drawing and drawings - Wikipedia

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    Elements of art – group of aspects of a work of art used in teaching and analysis, in combination with the principles of art. They are texture, form, line, color, value, and shape. Perspective – the principle of creating the illusion of 3-dimensionality on a 2-dimensional source such as paper. This is achieved by using one or more vanishing ...

  5. Perspective (graphical) - Wikipedia

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    Perspective drawing is useful for representing a three-dimensional scene in a two-dimensional medium, like paper. It is based on the optical fact that for a person an object looks N times (linearly) smaller if it has been moved N times further from the eye than the original distance was.

  6. Little Dot Hetherington at the Old Bedford - Wikipedia

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    In her 1973 monograph on Sickert's work, Wendy Baron suggested that a pencil drawing by Joe Hines from the Walker Gallery was also a sketch for the painting. [19] In the 1992 and 2006 monographs, the art historian retracted such a claim. [16] [44] Another sketch for the painting was reproduced in The Idler for March 1895, p. 169. The fate and ...

  7. Luminism (American art style) - Wikipedia

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    Fitz Henry Lane, Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, 1863, National Gallery of Art. Luminism is a style of American landscape painting of the 1850s to 1870s, characterized by effects of light in a landscape, through the use of aerial perspective and the concealing of visible brushstrokes. Luminist landscapes emphasize tranquility ...

  8. Accused killer asked how to get away with murder - court - AOL

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    Previously, the court heard how the two women were attacked as they sat on the sand watching the full moon after lighting a fire. Ms Gray, a football coach from Poole, was pronounced dead at the ...

  9. Light in painting - Wikipedia

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    Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus (1642), by Claude Lorrain, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Light in painting fulfills several objectives, both plastic and aesthetic: on the one hand, it is a fundamental factor in the technical representation of the work, since its presence determines the vision of the projected image, as it affects certain values such as color, texture and volume ...