Poster of Cast and Crew in How To Look At And Understand Great Art - The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective (Season 1 - Episode 7) - The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective

How To Look At And Understand Great Art - Season 1 - The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective (Episode 7)

Plot: Tracking the history of illusionism in Western art, grasp the principles of linear perspective, foreshortening, and atmospheric perspective as they replicate how the human eye perceives. See how artists, including Cézanne and Van Gogh, manipulated perspective for their own creative ends, and observe the extreme illusionism of trompe l'oeil and anamorphosis
Episode Aired On:
Saturday, January 1 2010
14 years ago
Genres: Documentary