to foreshorten
1
8.6
- verb
- /ˌfɔːrˈʃɔːrtn/
- Specialized
:
acortar
- And there's your foreshortened calf and your walking pose.
Examples
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And there's your foreshortened calf and your walking pose.
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Everyone else is uncomfortably foreshortened and squashed into the picture plane.
Academic text (2003) -
Between the distant yet approaching line of the dead, foreshortened into a dark vertical line advancing out of the depths of the image, and the beholder
Academic text (1993) -
MYRA'S POV: Foreshortened through the binoculars, Lilly opens the Chrysler's trunk and stashes money.
Fiction book (1990) -
The figure is artfully foreshortened, engaging in a sweeping contrapposto to provide a virtuoso "frame" for the sudarium, the origin of all cult images, made without human hands from the face of Christ.
Academic text (2002) -
In the painting, the artist foreshortened the figure to create the illusion of depth.
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To give a realistic perspective, he chose to foreshorten the objects in the background.
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In her drawing, she skillfully foreshortened the legs of the horse to make it look like it was galloping away.
How Compressed
- Specialized
1
8.6
94
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foreshorten comes from the parts fore- ('in front') and shorten ('make short'), and in art it means making a part look shorter because it points toward us, which creates a strong sense of depth.