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atmospheric perspective

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noun

  1. another term for aerial perspective

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He was considered a master of chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances

Wang Wei seems to have treated monochrome mainly from the standpoint of chiaroscuro, in his search for an atmospheric perspective which should be both fluid and ethereal.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances

Wang Wei established the principles of atmospheric perspective in the eighth century.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances

They furnish a complete demonstration of the laws of atmospheric perspective, with its feeling of distance and infinite space, in which forms are immersed.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances

To this linear perspective is added moreover an atmospheric perspective.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances

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