perspectival
- adjective
- /pərˈspɛk.tɪ.vəl/
- One direct link between The Plague of Ashdod's artful spectacle and the mise-en-scène of tragic theater is the perspectival cityscape setting.
- perspectival space
- perspectival painting
- perspectival view
The land is parched, Escher like, and it's perspectival shifts or the rain beats down.
- The land is parched, Escher like, and it's perspectival shifts or the rain beats down.
Examples
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The glow of the hearth, which is the vanishing point of the perspectival retreat, seems futile and remote.
Academic text (1993) -
Landscape, for the classic view photographers like Bennett, represented a perspectival view.
Academic text (1998) -
With some perspectival landscapes, we feel rooted to one spot.
Blog text (23) -
The rejection of perspectival techniques by indigenous artists in specific situations may have been by choice rather than because of a lack of ability.
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Such a continuous space will develop into various perspectival forms known to Roman painting and will later be renewed in the Renaissance.
Academic text (1999) -
Classical architecture lining the area here would have, as in many of Bramante's projects, created a controlled perspectival frame in which the church would be best viewed.
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The entries indicate that the priest spent money on making Christian images for the purpose of preaching, and, more interestingly, perspectival pictures were used as gifts for making connections with local elites.
Academic text (2014) -
More important but comparatively less visible are a general predilection for new visual effects, such as those seen in different kinds of perspectival images, and the emergence of global consciousness of influential historical agents such as the emperors.
Academic text (2014) -
In a separate study of the far right corner (Fig. 13), the painter not only altered the material and refined the proportions of the bed, but exaggerated its perspectival thrust so that it seems to widen rapidly as it comes closer to the viewer.
Academic text (1993) -
The artist used a perspectival approach to create depth in her landscape painting.
Synonyms
A style that makes things in a picture look far away or close
How Subjective
Surface Forms
Morphology
perspectival = perspective (transparent) = perspectiv + al
This is a direct adjectival formation meaning 'relating to perspective or point of view.'
Etymology
Perspectival comes from perspective, which means 'a way of seeing' and is related to words like spectator and inspect about looking. In art, a perspectival technique shows depth from one point of view, and more generally it describes anything based on a particular viewpoint.