Definition: Simply put, a picture plane is the canvas or piece of paper you're painting or drawing on. It's a term used most often in the context of perspective in a painting.
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Picture plane
In perspective, the plane (a flat level) occupied by the surface of the picture-- its frontal boundary.
Picture Plane - An imaginary flat surface that is assumed to be identical to the surface of a painting. Forms in a painting meant to be perceived in deep three-dimensional space are said to be"behind" the picture plane.
Picture Plane
(painting) The actual working surface of a two-dimensional piece of art.
Picture plane The region of the oil painting which lies directly behind the frame and separates the viewer's world from that of the picture.
picture plane The two-dimensional picture surface.
pigment A coloring agent in powder form used in paints, crayons, and chalks.
picture plane - The flat surface on which an image is painted, and that part of the image which is closest to the viewer.
Picture Plane: This phrase denotes the spatial plane corresponding to the actual surface of the painting.
Pigment: A pigment is the coloring agent in paint or dye.
Picture Plane
Theoretical spatial plane corresponding to the surface of the canvas.
picture plane...The plane occupied by the physical surface of the picture.
The front of the picture plane (usually at the bottom of the picture).
FOCAL POINT:
The main part of the picture that draws the viewer's attention.
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orthogonal - lines, edges and planes in a painting or drawing which are perpendicular to the picture plane and appear to recede into the picture
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format The shape or proportions of a picture plane.
fresco A painting technique in which pigments suspended in water are applied to a damp lime-plaster surface. The pigments dry to become part of the plaster wall or surface.
DEPTH: the illusion of space in a picture plane.
DESIGN: the organization of line, form, color, value, texture and space in an eye-pleasing arrangement
DETAILS: dealing with some item by showing all of the particulars ...
Already by the time of the earlier work, Thiebaud was pressing his subjects forward against the picture plane, simplifying the objects into basic formal units, and aligning them in strictly ordered progressions.
Although every part of the picture plane is occupied, the main focus of the icon is on the Transfigured Jesus and on the disciples who are awed by the splendour of His glory.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) and considered to be "the" revolutionary movement of modern art, Cubism was a more intellectual style of painting that explored the full potential of the two-dimensional picture plane ...
Furthermore, the inclusion of abstract and representational elements on the same picture plane led both artists to reexamine what two-dimensional elements, such as newspaper lettering, signified.
suggested that geometric abstraction might function as a solution to problems concerning the need for modernist painting to reject the illusionistic practices of the past while addressing the inherently two dimensional nature of the picture plane as ...
Matisse had studied Paul Signac's use of pure color and his organization of the picture plane through contrasting complementary pairs. In doing so, Matisse creates an energetic, even a tense effect.
We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth."
--Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, 1943 in a letter to The New York Times
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Using geometric shapes and bold colors on flattened picture planes to express his emotions, he fleshed out the lives of Tubman, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and African-Americans migrating north from the rural south during and after slavery.
In Paris, under the influence of poets and writers, he developed his unique style: organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp line.
Analytic cubists reduced natural forms to their basic geometric parts and then tried to reconcile these essentially three-dimensional parts with the two-dimensional picture plane. Color was greatly subdued, and paintings were nearly monochromatic.
Artists use relative position on the picture plane to create the illusion of space. The higher up the objects are placed in the picture, the farther away we assume them to be. Objects placed lower in the picture appear nearer to us.
On the left, in a more restricted field, and further back from the picture plane, the Creator is depicted once again - notably foreshortened and seen from behind - as he heads toward the earth, going away from the foreground.
foldover - A view in a place is shown on each of two halves of a picture plane, so that after viewing the first view, the paper must be inverted in order to view the second one.
The theater of the picture plane is an exhilarating arena for exploration. I am fascinated by the way paint can the create atmosphere and mood, movement and direction, inhabited shadows and unseen sources of light.
Optical Art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing. Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white.
Orthogonal - A line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane. The orthogonal in a painting appear to recede toward a vanishing point on the horizon Return to top ...
The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories of art as the imitation of nature.
Foreshortening: A method of reducing or distorting the parts of a represented object which are not parallel to the picture plane, in order to convey the impression of three dimensions as perceived by the human eye.
In all-over space, the forms are seen as occupying the same spatial depth, usually on the picture plane; also, they are all seen as possessing the same degree of importance in the painting.
In the imaginary space of a picture, the plane occupied by the physical surface of the work. Perspective appears to recede from the picture plane, and objects painted in trompe-l'oeil may appear to project from it. Picturesque ...
Foreshortening is when an object appears compressed when seen from a particular viewpoint, and the effect of perspective causes distortion. Particularly effective when well rendered on the picture plane to create the illusion of a figure in space.
Sfumato - From the Italian work for 'smoke', a technique of painting in thin glazes to achieve a hazy, cloudy atmosphere, often to represent objects or landscape meant to be perceived as distant from the picture plane.
Synthetic Cubism tended to push objects together rather than pick them apart for analysis. Many of the devices used were intended to flatten the picture plane and create an image with less depth than the earlier Analytical Cubist paintings.
 See also: Plane, Painting, Movement, Sculpture, Composition
  
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