🖼ap art history review

Overlapping

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

A compositional technique in which forms or figures are placed in front of one another to create the illusion of spatial depth and recession in space.

AP course connection

Topic 4.3: 4.3 Materials, Processes, and Techniques in Later European and American Art

Unit 4

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