Recession | Glossary | National Gallery, London
Spatial recession in paintings is the relationship between objects which appear to lie near to the observer and those which seem further away, and thus recede into space. Various devices are …
GAINING PERSPECTIVE - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Early Renaissance painter Masaccio (Italian, 1401–1428) was the first Renaissance painter to incorporate Brunelleschi’s discovery into art. We see this in Masaccio’s Holy Trinity, painted …
The Break-up of the Ice (La Débâcle or Les Glaçons)
In this painting, Monet explores two contrasting aspects of painting: spatial recession and surface patterning. As the Seine recedes at the left, Monet’s vertical reflections and horizontal floes …
Pictorial depth (spatial recession) is a specialized aspect of composition in which the three-dimensional world is repre- sented on a flat surface, or picture plane.
The History of Perspective - Essential Vermeer
From the Duecento to the Cinquecento, a period after which art academies formally introduced the teaching of perspective, painters explored various techniques to evoke spatial depth on a …
The Wangchuan Villa 網川圖 | The Art Institute of Chicago
This scroll, which may accurately preserve Li’s composition, shows thickly contoured rocks, tight spatial recession, and other aspects stylistic features that are associated with Chinese artists …
David Hockney, The Weather Series, 1973 - National Gallery of Art
Hockney’s Snow, in which repetitive horizontal bands of tonal gradation suggest spatial recession, is most explicitly indebted to Japanese woodcuts, while the hazy silhouettes of Hockney’s Mist …
Flower Ball – Works – eMuseum - Seattle Art Museum
Murakami’s use of spatial recession creates the illusion of a three-dimensional flower ball. Each flower is painted in different colors, as if with its own feeling and expression. The center of the …
Art Encyclopedia - Recession - The Art World
The traditional methods of achieving the sense of recession are by deploying the more distant shapes higher up the format; by placing shapes in front of each other; by perspective devices; …
Recession - Art Dictionary by Arcy Art Original Oil Paintings
In art, recession is the appearance or illusion of depth in a picture. The traditional methods of achieving the sense of recession are by deploying the more distant shapes higher up the …