How to Look at and Understand Great Art

The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective

S1 • E7    Dec 31, 2010
Tracking the history of illusionism in Western art, grasp the principles of linear perspective, foreshortening, and atmospheric perspective as they replicate how the human eye perceives. See how artists, including Cézanne and Van Gogh, manipulated perspective for their own creative ends, and observe the extreme illusionism of trompe l'oeil and anamorphosis.

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  • Sharon Latchaw HirshSelf

 

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