forced perspective

British  

noun

1. the use of objects or images that are larger or smaller than they should be, to suggest that they are nearer or further away than they really are

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Example Sentences

It’s a type of forced perspective, invented by cameras and normalized through the omnipresence of television.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Think of it as a forced perspective: The installation calls subtle attention to all the similarly eccentric diagonal compositions in the career-defining early landscape paintings.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023

How did you make the forced perspective shots work?

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Lesley Roy and her song Maps had a unique staging where she appeared to be running through books and trapped in an origami forest with forced perspective making her part of the scene.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2021

One species favors a particular shade of royal blue, while another uses an optical illusion known as forced perspective that makes objects appear to be a different size than they actually are.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2017