foreshortening
Andrea Mantegna, The lamentation over the dead Christ, c. 1490
Noun
- A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.
- A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.
Verb
- Present participle of foreshorten
Modern English dictionary
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