The "BIRD'S-EYE VIEW" . . . in art

a 'BIRD'S-EYE VIEW' is an elevated view of an object from above,  with a perspective as though

the observer were a bird,  as though the observer had spent 20 kronor on getting very high on a
giant goose.  Well who hasn't from time to time?

       
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Joseph Pennell,  1908

       
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a painting by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson       see full size

       
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an Erik Werenskiold illustration       see full size

       
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"No Vacancy - Keep Moving"    a Bruce McCall illustration for The New Yorker magazine

     
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Bruce McCall

     
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an Edward Burtynsky photograph       see full size

       
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a Gustave Caillebotte painting

       

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Otto Wagner,  1917       see full size
       
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a Georg Gerster  (correct spelling)  1979 photograph
       
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1912 Coney Island,  New York       see full size

     
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  a John Falter illustration,  1940s?       see full size
       
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a Robert Williams painting ... the painting title explained it

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1964 New York
       
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Chris Ballantyne art       see full size

      
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a C.G. Evers illustration       see full size
       
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a Gerardo Dottori painting,  1930

    
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an Edward Wadsworth woodcut of Rotterdam, 1914
       
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a 1944 illustration       see full size

     
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A 1927 Dutch maze       see full size
       
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a 1926 futurism painting by Gerardo Dottori
       
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a 1965 Dodge Monaco,  Canada       see full size

   
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an old UPA animation layout       see full size

 
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a view from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair Tower       see full size
       
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a Ronald McLeod illustration
       
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1947 concrete homes
       
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at the 1955 General Motors Powerama event
       
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Lebbeus Woods       see full size

    
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a 1940 magazine advertisement
       
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artwork by Ben Tolman

    
Bird's-Eye View Part 1      Bird's-Eye View Part 2       Bird's-Eye View Part 3 

Bird's-Eye View  Part 4          Bird's-Eye View Part 5

    

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