In Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, the draftsman is using a device to help him achieve the effect of:

A. foreshortening.
B. chiaroscuro.
C. a restricted palette.
D. the illusion of motion.
E. simultaneous contrast.


A
Foreshortening is a visual phenomenon that makes an elongated object projecting toward or away from the viewer shorter than it actually is, thereby creating the illusion of projecting into space.

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