The phrase
"flat plane" means a surface or area that is completely level and without any curves or slopes.
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In visual art, this often takes the form of
flat planes of color placed next to or near each other in a painting or print.
Often I'll leave the cookies round, but I have also molded logs into simple geometric shapes by pressing down lengthwise along the log while the dough is soft to
create flat planes.
Due to the design of the base, the rear of the opposite painting is seen behind the person,
where flat planes of colored paint produce a loosely articulated second figure.
Most of the stages are
typical flat planes, though there are surfing and motorcycle stages, and a requisite elevator scene, as found in nearly every 90s beat - em - up.
Ultimately lifting the canvas off its
classic flat plane to depths that measure as much as three feet, she literally transformed the canvas into sculpture.
Although her works are visually composed of
flat planes of color, they are physically constructed through a labor - intensive process of dying and sewing.
Her delicate works echo Islamic and Persian traditional motifs and are painted on wooden panels
with flat planes filled with pattern.
Tawney freed tapestry from the wall to float in space, transforming
flat planes into dramatic, figurative volumes.
Sultan writes that the works on view, «drawn from the museum's extensive collections, [are] a fascinating survey showing the enduring interest in cubism's way of... taking apart of the visual world and reassembling it
in flat planes, a new understanding of form.»
As if drawing in space, Texas - born artist Peter Reginato (American, born 1945) creates semi-figurative sculptures by arranging organic shapes, hand - cut
from flat planes of steel, into vibrant, dimensional forms.
The resulting paintings are distinguished by shifts
between flat planes of colour and an illusory depth.
Most of these planets lie in the same
flat plane around the equators of their host stars, like the planets in our solar system.
Daum's work is characterized
by flat planes of color, shaped by an overall patterning influenced by the ideographs of the Pacific Northwest Native Americans.
All calmly share the
same flat plane, perfectly balanced in scale and chromatic intensity, yet straining to burst their optical bonds.
Straight lines and
flat planes morph into looping and twisting volumes and sculptural reliefs in the new commission by Leonor Antunes (b. 1972, Portugal).
When we first started, my inclination was to try to figure out how to
make flat planes, and then we ended up doing this last print with a series of eight to ten aquatint planes, all gray tonalities on top of the hard - ground etching.
The tiny galaxies surrounding Centaurus A, about 12 million light - years from Earth, were recently found to be orbiting in a
surprisingly flat plane — not a random sphere.
The anode, on the other hand, was made with phosphor deliberately optimized by coverage of ITO nanoparticles and assembled together with the cathode by the new stable assembling process resulting to stand -
alone flat plane - emission panel.
A dry sump and
flat plane crankshaft allow the engine to be placed extremely low in the chassis thereby lowering the centre of gravity and improving handling responses.
The Asterion, like all Lamborghini cars, has clearly defined lines,
separating flat planes from the side of the car and distinguishing between panels.
For her exhibition Sunset that was on view through September, Mary Heilmann designed brightly colored chairs on wheels, and the backs were
very flat planes.
(Beal didn't actually align himself with Hard Edge movement, Mr. Adams told the Observer, but in addition to the paintings he completed in those years, he
studied flat planes and toyed with spacial illusions exhaustively in a multi-year, diaristic sketchbook titled The Form Book, also on view in the gallery.)
Colour field painting, that subdivision of abstract expressionism,
meant flat planes of pure pigment.
Drawings themselves are illusions —
flat planes mimic space, dry, burnt material appears to be liquid and shiny.
Human forms veer towards the geometric: circles stand in for heads,
flat planes describe rooms and crude poses denote narrative.
Many of these clay forms
feature flat planes marked with transferred drawings, situating them in an interstitial territory between sculpture and sketch.
The Yale grad's use of moody colors and
flat planes lend her paintings a dreamlike quality — one in which the full narrative remains a mystery.
Cantate Domino is based on two diamond shapes formed in depth by
flat planes so that they are open front and back.
For instance, he paints the corners of
flat planes folded over like a dog - eared page to reveal a surface of a different color on the illusionary verso.
Prominent horizontal lines
crisscrossing flat planes evoke horizons, while on a smaller scale viewers will find themselves reaching for geological terms to describe the craggy properties of the dried pigment.
And as such, both work rather well in estimating average temperature anomalies, of adhering to a reality that exists independently of each — like cartesian and polar coordinate systems to a
nearly flat plane.
However, even slightly older iPhones without ARKit support can use the app thanks to the Fusion platform by its developer, Vuforia, which
senses flat planes and allows the drawings to appear to paint over the objects.
The resulting paintings are characterised by shifts
between flat planes and illusory depth and a visual language that oscillates between diagrammatic and ambient, purely abstract and literal, grisaille and technicolour.
DeFeo often applied paint to canvas in thick layers, while Lawrence and Davis
created flat planes of vivid color.
Never a realist, Guston moved closer to a Cubistic approach as he began working
with flat planes instead of volumes.
And then a longing for the return of curves and for work with larger areas of colour brought paintings
where flat planes of colour appear to weave in space in compositions of lyrical and exuberant rhythms.
Straight lines and
flat planes morph into looping and twisting volumes and sculptural reliefs in the new commission by Leonor Antunes.
In this painting the hexagonal motifs float in a space that I can not help but see as deeper than the two -
dimensional flat plane that I know it is and that the painting itself keeps reminding me it is, by the refusal to open up a window on the world of recognizable objects, almost as if I find myself at the moment where perception attempts to become cognition and the attempt is continually thwarted.
Characterized
By Flat Planes, Large Glass Windows And Open Space, This Home Features Simplicity And Encourages An Integration With Nature.
Jonas Wood Interiors and Landscapes David Kordansky Gallery By Jody Zellen Through December 16th Jonas Wood reduces the observable world into
flat planes of color.