Question

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
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?
(1 point)

linear perspective

atmospheric perspective

vanishing perspective

creative perspective

Answer 1

atmospheric perspective

The artist made distant objects lighter, less detailed, and blurrier to convey depth, which is characteristic of atmospheric (aerial) perspective.