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The meaning of FORESHORTEN is to shorten by proportionately contracting in the direction of depth so that an illusion of projection or extension in space is obtained. How to use foreshorten in a sentence.
To foreshorten someone or something means to draw them, photograph them, or see them from an unusual angle so that the parts of them that are furthest away seem smaller than they really are. She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortened her.
Let’s take a look at Raphael’s “School of Athens,” because there are some great examples of foreshortening here. Probably the most obvious is in the hand of the figure of Aristotle in the very center of the painting.
When an artist foreshortens, she makes an object appear closer or a distance shorter than it is, to create a sense of depth in a painting or drawing. To foreshorten is to create a kind of optical illusion simply by making lines shorter or angling the perspective in a certain way.
foreshorten - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
FORESHORTEN meaning: 1 : to cause (something) to appear shorter than it really is because it is in the foreground of a drawing, painting, etc.; 2 : to make (something) shorter
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To foreshorten someone or something means to draw them, photograph them, or see them from an unusual angle so that the parts of them that are furthest away seem smaller than they really are. She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortened her.
