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[ adjective ] involving or relating to three dimensions or aspects; giving the illusion of depth
Synonyms Examples "lifelike three-dimensional characters" "a three-dimensional account of conditions under the new government" "they shot the movie in three-D" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)The actual surface becomes both ground and background , and it turns_out - suddenly and paradoxically - that the only place left for a three-dimensional illusion is in_front of , upon , the surface . In the Analytical phase of their Cubism , Braque and Picasso had not_only had to minimize three-dimensionality simply in_order to preserve it ; they had also had to generalize it - to the point , finally , where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as_such : as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself . If , on_the_other_hand , they opted_for representation , it had to be representation per_se - representation as image pure_and_simple , without connotations ( at_least , without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed . Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if_not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] involving or relating to three dimensions or aspects; giving the illusion of depth
Synonyms Examples "lifelike three-dimensional characters" "a three-dimensional account of conditions under the new government" "they shot the movie in three-D" Related terms |
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