pictorial/picture surface - The flat plane of the canvas or other support, which is the two-dimensional arena of the image.
If a viewer stares intensely at the picture surface, focusing on one of the dots for 15 to 20 seconds, the cones - light and color receptors in the retina - of the eye overstimulate and remain stimulated for a short period, ...
Op Art - A twentieth century art movement and style in which artists sought to create an impression of movement on the picture surface by means of optical illusion. It is derived from, and is also known as Optical Art and Perceptual Abstraction...
This seems to have affected his own style, for in the manner of Rubens' later works the texture of his picture surface becomes far richer. This is particularly true of his portrait of the "Duchess of Devonshire and Her Daughter" (1786).
A type of space in modern painting characterized by the distribution of forms equally over the entire the picture surface, as opposed to the traditional composing method of having a focal point or center of interest.
and drawing, and are related to the mural-sized late Monets that are constructed of many passages of close valued brushed and scumbled marks that also read as close valued fields of color and drawing that Monet used in building his picture surfaces.
To use linear perspective an artist must first imagine the picture surface as an "open window" through which to see the painted world.
"Avery's landscapes, like his figures, are generally effective decorations of the picture surface in terms of flat, often interlocking shapes of attractive color.
A visual and tactile technique in which scraps of paper, with various textures are pasted to the picture surface to enrich or embellish areas. In addition to the actual texture of the paper, the print on tickets, newspapers, etc.
picture plane The two-dimensional picture surface.
pigment Any coloring agent, made from natural or synthetic substances, used in paints or drawing materials.
It later became used for all American work that treated the picture surface as a single flat surface. These paintings took on a geometrical look and usually had a limited palette.
Its picture surface resembling fractured glass and was so radical that it was not even understood by contemporary avant-garde painters and critics.
An illusion of depth is created on two-dimensional picture surfaces by precise foreshortening and proportioning of the objects, landscapes, buildings and figures that are being depicted, in accordance with their distance from the observer.
Involves dripping, dribbling or throwing paint onto the surface of the canvas, as a way of mediating the workings of the unconscious mind in an unplanned way - like automatic writing the artist becomes an actor and the picture surface his (usually ...
These artworks were characterised by precisely defined areas or geometric shapes of flat smooth colour. In these paintings there is no distinction between foreground, and background space, making the picture surface look absolutely flat.
Both groups were deeply imbued with the belief that the individual psyche harbors deep feelings that can be brought to the picture surface only by means of extremely free techniques, such as those suggested earlier by the Surrealists.
 See also: Painting, Movement, Impression, Emphasis, Sculpture
  
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