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anamorphosis

Artistic technique of distortion. Something of a fashion in early 16th-century northern Europe, anamorphosis involved producing an over-long, squashed image which would rectify itself when viewed from a particular side angle. Leonardo da Vinci experimented with it while at the French court, and Hans Holbein the Younger employed the technique for the image of the skull in his double portrait The Ambassadors (1533).



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space agency Nasa began street painting in Rome in 1982 and translated anamorphism - the technique used by artists to create the illusion of height - into a new way of painting to give depth.
Habib, Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character: A Study in Dramatic Anamorphism (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1993); Bert O.
The viewer becomes a performer again in Opgenorth's exper iment with anamorphism, visual matter presented such that it can only be "correctly" discerned when seen from an extremely oblique angle.
 
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