What is perspective?
Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) in the graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye. The two most characteristic features of perspective are that objects are drawn:
Whereas Trompe-l'œil
Escaping Criticism by Pere Borrell del Caso, 1874
Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) in the graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye. The two most characteristic features of perspective are that objects are drawn:
- Smaller as their distance from the observer increases
- Foreshortened: the size of an object's dimensions along the line of sight are relatively shorter than dimensions across the line of sight
Whereas Trompe-l'œil
Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye", pronounced [tʁɔ̃p lœj]), which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil, is an art technique involving realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture.
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