Two wheat stacks sit in the snow in early morning light. The closer wheat stack appears larger than the first. Hills, houses, and trees in the distance are blurry and lightly-colored.
Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning (Mueles, Effet de Neige Le Matin)
by Claude Monet
Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program
Question
A community artist creates a mural of the surrounding farm country. Far-off hills, trees, and buildings are slightly blurry and lighter in color than the objects in the foreground. What type of perspective did the artist use in this painting?
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Responses
linear perspective
linear perspective
atmospheric perspective
atmospheric perspective
vanishing perspective
vanishing perspective
creative perspective