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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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The disorientation is heightened by druggily saturated, overheated color and fish-eye anamorphoses that bring close closer and push distance farther away.
Pipilotti Rist: Hauser & Wirth by Schwabsky, Barry / Artforum International
Another difference is that the garden works were constructed to transform in front of the viewer's eyes, like a shifting stage set, but two-dimensional anamorphoses require movement of the viewer - a literal transformation in the viewer's position in relation to the viewpoint.
Anamorphosis through Descartes or perspective gone awry by Massey, Lyle / Renaissance Quarterly
In the great Pomard Hall of the museum (recently expanded by the architects Diener & Diener), several anamorphoses made of words and figures were integrated into an imaginary landscape.
Markus Raetz: Centre Pasquart. (Biel) by Reust, Hans Rudolf / Artforum International
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