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unusual facts about aerial perspective


Aerial perspective

(One caution: in common speech, the words perspective and viewpoint tend to be used interchangeably; however, in art, aerial perspective does not imply an aerial viewpoint, such as that forming the basis of the aerial landscape genre. The example by Frans Koppelaar pictured here shows the difference. This landscape is a good example of aerial perspective; however, it is not an aerial landscape, since the observer is apparently standing on the ground.)


The Côte des Bœufs at L’Hermitage

This use of immediate—sometimes incongruous—contrasts has an exaggerative effect on the foreground’s strong colour saturation; itself a component in the effect of aerial perspective.


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