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Foreshortening

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Foreshortening 

in art, the reduction of depicted forms as required by the laws of perspective. In murals, foreshortening often conveys movement and space most effectively.

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Rathe, K. Die Ausdrucksfunktion extrem verkürzter Figuren. Leipzig, 1938.
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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.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
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.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
 
 
 
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