atmospheric perspective
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It had endowed landscape painting with all the resources of atmospheric perspective and had established the two essential styles of the North and the South.
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
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
It was he who discovered the principles which govern the fading of colors and forms in the distance, and who formulated the laws of atmospheric perspective.
From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances
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