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aerial perspective

noun as in bird's-eye view

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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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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