ABSTRACT
There is hardly another painterly technique that has shaped Western visual art as much and as long as the technique of Linear Perspective. Linear Perspective enables visual artists to create space illusions. These illusions can be so suggestive that the viewer perceives and experiences a landscape or a situation inside a building, although the viewer knows that this space does not exist in reality. The viewer is irritated by the new spaces, but irritated in a positive way: once he or she has found out the power of images to perform a wide range of imaginary spaces, these possibilities are taken into account. She expects to be surprised with new space inventions, and he imagines that some of the architectural spaces can be transformed from their symbolic form into a material form.
