Pictoral Space - The illusory space in a painting or other work of two-dimensional art that seems to recede backward into depth from the picture plane, giving the illusion of distance.
Expressionist painters of the early 20th century strove to invest the human figure and pictoral space with as much emotive content as possible.
"With the artist Emile Bernard, Gauguin invented a method of rendering pictoral space that uses large patches of flat color and thick line; these techniques influenced early 20th-century artists.
 See also: Impressionism, Impression, Depth, Art movement, Movement
  
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