aerial perspective

noun

1. a technique of rendering depth or distance in painting by modifying the tone or hue and distinctness of objects perceived as receding from the picture plane, especially by reducing distinctive local colors and contrasts of light and dark to a uniform light bluish-gray color.

aerial perspective

noun

1. a means of indicating relative distance in terms of a gradation of clarity, tone, and colour, esp blue Also calledatmospheric perspective

Word History and Origins

Origin of aerial perspective¹

First recorded in 1725–35

Example Sentences

His works, known for their vivid explosions of color, their fluid, coiling lines and their aerial perspective, have sometimes invited comparisons to Australian Aboriginal art.

From New York Times

The second video gives an aerial perspective of the same group of Ukrainian soldiers inside the courtyard of a farmhouse.

From New York Times

At the back is an enormous, angled mirror that reflects the action from an aerial perspective but also serves as a screen for special effects made from projections on the floor — “literally smoke and mirrors,” as he put it.

From New York Times

McCarthy celebrated Masaccio’s frescoes for their “spatial immensity, deep, massive volumes, and implacable candour of vision, which sweeps across the panels in aerial perspective like the searching ray of a lighthouse.”

From New York Times

Gowin’s aerial perspective is also fraught with ambivalence: the bird’s-eye view affords us a godlike prospect on the land, but it is also what a bombardier would see through his scope, or a drone pilot on his screen.

From The New Yorker