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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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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 Frances Seaver

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 Frances Seaver

He was considered a master of chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Frances Seaver

To this linear perspective is added moreover an atmospheric perspective.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Frances Seaver

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

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Frances Seaver

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