twisted perspective

Noun

twisted perspective (uncountable)

1. A perspective that combines both profile view and front view.
   • One example of twisted perspective is the ‘law of frontality, which, with about a four-hundred-year period of minor exceptions, dominated Egyptian art for over twenty-five hundred years. It allows views only of the full surface, whether front, side or rear, of the part to be depicted. It does not...2004, Brener, Milton E., Vanishing points: Three dimensional perspective in art and history, page 16

   Synonyms:

   composite pose, mixed perspective