foreshortening

English
Andrea Mantegna, The lamentation over the dead Christ, c. 1490

Noun

foreshortening (countable and uncountable, plural foreshortenings)

  1. (art) 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.
  2. A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.

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Verb

foreshortening

  1. present participle and gerund of foreshorten

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