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Example: http://perso.club-internet.fr/ojouslin/
F Nicholson A View at Stourhead
The three distances:
- foreground (the rolling grass and turf, bearing the framing trees)
- middle distance : lake and bridge (importance of negative shapesin middle distance of classical landscape);
the lake is atmospheric and it is a reflecting surface, the bridge
has hollow arches, to send the gaze towards the distance
- the background or distance, the opposite shore, with the Pantheon to the
centre right
Other elements introducing variations in the sense of
space:
- figures
- in the foreground they act as surrogate viewers (under the tree to the left)
- to the left on the path they open the view laterally
- on the bridge, they underline its transition role (carrying forward the gaze)
- alternations in the three distances
- light and dark :
- in the foreground the emphasis is on the dark trees against the light,
- in the background on the white temple in the medium coloured trees;
- both effects interplay in the middle distance
- right and left:
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- in the foreground the emphasis is on the major tree on the left
- then slightly further on the tree which serves as a limit between
foreground/middle distance to the right
- then on the bridge in the middle distance centre left
- then on the background temple centre right
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