Figure 3.51 Interactive Image Walkthrough

The Visual Elements of Art

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Harvesters. 1565. Oil on wood, 3' 9 7/8" x 5' 2 7/8". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The foreground tree is so big, it doesn't even fit in the painting, while, in the distance, the trees, houses, and boats diminish in size.
In the foreground, the people overlap the landscape that is behind them in the background.
The foreground figures are vertically positioned lower down on the picture plane than the fields that are higher up and farther away.
. Which object(s) in the painting show that the artist used diminishing size?

. Which objects in the painting show that the artist used overlapping?

. Which objects in the painting show that the artist used vertical positioning?

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