Three-dimensional space

Three-dimensional space: a sensation of space which seems to have thickness or depth as well as height and width.
Three-quarter view: a view of a face or any other subject which is half-way between a full and a profile view.

three-dimensional space Any space that possesses height, width, and depth.

atmospheric perspective A technique, often employed in landscape painting, designed to suggest three-dimensional space in the two-dimensional space of the picture plane, and in which forms and objects distant from the viewer become less distinct, ...

His preoccupations with the rules of composition led him to depict three-dimensional space with minute, separate dots, a technique that would form the heart of pointillism and divisionism.

A term which refers to the "depth" of a picture - that is, the illusion of three-dimensional space on the picture's two-dimensional surface - whereby forms in the background appear smaller than those in the foreground.

spatial cues - Methods of indicating three-dimensional space in two-dimensional images.

perspective A system for creating an illusion of depth or three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.

By 1910, it had become evident that cubism no longer had any cubes and that the illusion of three-dimensional space, or volume, was gone.

different motifs in, say, Taddeo Gaddi's or Ambrogio Lorenzetti's monumental frescoes, but - and in this respect he was unique in his own period - he adopted the essential greatness of their art: their method of representing three-dimensional space ...

Works consisted of both hard-edge and expressionistic abstract painting styles that employed the use of perspective, artificial light sources, and simulated cast shadows to achieve the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.

In art, a system by which three-dimensional space can be convincingly portrayed on a two-dimensional surface. The lines of buildings and other objects in a picture are slanted inward making them appear to extend back into space.

In his "temple" paintings, for instance, the juxtaposition of two highly contrasting colors provokes a sense of depth in illusionistic three-dimensional space so that it appears as if the architectural shape is invading the viewer's space.

His were some of the earliest pieces to come off of the walls of cathedrals, occupying three-dimensional space. His figures use the classical contrapposto stance (relaxed and not rigid).

Paradoxically, it is Cézanne's fidelity to what he saw that accounts for this "denial" of logic and three-dimensional space. It is not so much that he is deliberately flattening space.

With this new technique of pasting colored or printed pieces of paper in their compositions, Picasso and Braque swept away the last vestiges of three-dimensional space (illusionism) that still remained in their "high" Analytic work.

A system for depicting three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface that depends on two related principles: that things perceived as far away are smaller than things nearer the viewer, ...

In a sense, all painting is based on tricks of visual perception: manipulating rules of perspective to give the illusion of three-dimensional space, mixing colors to create the impression of light and shadow, and so on.

Even if the gold leaf background is finely stippled, it fails to create an illusion of three-dimensional space. Gold leaf shining on a picture's surface reflects the light in the viewer's space, rather than the imaginary light within the painting.

Technique of representing three-dimensional space on a flat or relief surface giving a sense of depth. Linear perspective foreshortens objects as they recede into the distance with lines converging to a vanishing point.

A system for creating an illusion of depth or a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.
Photography
The science, engineering, art and craft of producing relatively permanent images by the action of light on sensitive materials.

Matisse's methodical studies led him to reject traditional renderings of three-dimensional space and to seek instead a new picture space defined by movement of colour. Matisse exhibited his famous "Woman with the Hat" (Walter A.

dimension - A measure of spacial distance. The dimensions of three-dimensional spaces or objects are given as height by width by depth, and they are conventionally listed in that order.

An imaginary flat surface that is assumed to be identical to the surface of a painting. Forms in a painting meant to be perceived in deep three-dimensional space are said to be "behind" the picture plane.

Perspective: This term refers to the system of representing objects in three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.
Picture Plane: This phrase denotes the spatial plane corresponding to the actual surface of the painting.

transcendent time and place; the only worldly concern was with how one must behave in order to get into heaven. Thus the figures in Byzantine art tend to "hover" in space without weight and solidness, without inhabiting a three-dimensional space.

A Low Key drawing would be one that has mostly dark values. In both Low and High Key pieces this system of chiaroscura can be used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space in a drawing.
Hint: How to create shadows in linear perspective.

foreshortening Reducing or distorting in order to represent three-dimensional space as perceived by the eye, according to the rules of perspective.

See also: Three-dimensional, Painting, Perspective, Sculpture, Movement