Monday, August 27, 2012

Dictionary. Word


Anamorphosis  
is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. The word "anamorphosis" is derived from the Greek prefix ana-, meaning back or again, and the word morphe, meaning shape or form.
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Visceral 

1. (anatomy) Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.
2. Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.
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Intricacies 
1. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
2. From William Hogarth’s Six Principles, 1753
Intricacy satisfies man’s innate “love of pursuit”. Intricacy is to an extent a new aesthetic criterion, and it relates to the engagement of the viewer by the object or work (“leads the eye [on] a wanton kind of chase”), affording pleasure to the mind.
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Veduta
A veduta (Italian for "view"; plural vedute) is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, actually more often print, of a cityscape or some other vista. 
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Capriccio
In painting, a capriccio (plural capricci, in older English works often anglicized as "caprice"), means especially an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological remains and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations, perhaps with staffage of figures. It fits under the more general term of landscape painting. It may also be used of other types of work with an element of fantasy.
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Fovea Centralis 
Leonardo Da Vinci is credited with the discovery of the fovea centralis, the centre of the retina of the eye which gives us our central and most detailed vision. This is the part of the eye which is our “line of sight,” it is where we direct our visual attention.
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