picture plane

Noun

Meaning

the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work

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In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. Bridget Riley

We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the nequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth. Barnett Newman

Della Francesca fleshed it out, explicitly covering solids in any area of the picture plane. Source: Internet

Op art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing. Source: Internet

The Impressionists had used a double point of view, and both Les Nabis and the Symbolists (who also admired Cézanne) flattened the picture plane, reducing their subjects to simple geometric forms. Source: Internet

They represented all the surfaces of depicted objects in a single picture plane, as if the objects had all their faces visible at the same time. Source: Internet

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