Visual Arts · Art Theory & Visual Culture
A topic within Art Theory & Visual Culture, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
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Smarthistory
Shows that one-point perspective is a construction from a single vanishing point on the horizon, and that the horizon line is fixed by where the viewer's eye is assumed to be.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Smarthistory
Shows that formal analysis is a disciplined procedure, not taste: line, colour, space and scale are described first, and only then used to argue what the picture is doing.
link checked 17 Sept 2026