The phrase
"pictorial plane" refers to the two-dimensional surface on which a picture or painting is created. It is the flat space where artists organize and depict their images.
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It is both
flat pictorial plane and three - dimensional environment, with neither aspect dominant over the other.
At every turn the curatorial hand complements the fearless confrontation
of pictorial plane and the tenacity in subject matter that fills the museum galleries.
The black textured surface of G1 Magnetic Wave Shield, 2016 obscures expectation and allows us to fill in the
dense pictorial plane.
In the beginning, Crocker's paintings are made un-stretched on the floor and painted on both sides, treated more like a cloth than a painting with a
predetermined pictorial plane.
Its minimal structure and complex visual effect doesn't allow our eyes to rest on any
static pictorial plane, «thus,» as critic Barbara Rose put it, «the painting remains continuously alive.»
She often uses subtle references to the cultures and traditions she was exposed to growing up: calligraphy, manga and the flatness of the
Japanese pictorial plane contrasted with the gravitas of twentieth century Western modernism.
In part, Stella's paintings of the 1960s eradicated composition, pushing painting toward objecthood and away from a
flattened pictorial plane.
Finished with a sheet of topping glass, each sculpture displays an
expressive pictorial plane, but also provides a functional surface.
A Geometric Hard - Edge «Abstract» shapes in a
flat pictorial plane, Painting: Acrylic on linen, 58 x 44 inches, 2013
Often, he pushes
the pictorial plane to its limit, overloading the sedimented surface to the point that medium and image migrate to other supports: table tops, baking paddles and altered produce boxes that the artist has collected in Rome.
One of the focal points of the sale was a collection of artists who radicalised traditional methods for making art by pushing the boundaries of
the pictorial plane.
The texture creates a topographic map where deep valleys and pleats contour and inform the bodily shapes arranged on
the pictorial plane.
Included in BIG is Sam Gilliam's Carousel (1970), which transcends both
the pictorial plane and the sculptural object by removing the wooden stretcher bars that typically provide a painting with its two - dimensionality.
The pictorial plane here is ambiguous, with bands of color moving around the shapes.»
Hsiung's video works bring these ideas out into an order of social space, beyond
the pictorial plane, to further investigate the mediation of social life, nature and constructed images in an endlessly transforming universe.
In the artistic development, the progression of plastic structure,
pictorial plane, and depth of material, a production appears from a mutual anxiety that looks unrelated to each other.
I challenge
the pictorial plane and the boundaries of the images on it, their movement and their way of interacting with their surroundings.»
In this case, Consuegra reproduces a space within another space, expanding the limits of
the pictorial plane and making the white cube the work itself.
According to a statement issued by the museum, the jury praised Rhode's vocabulary of constructivism, engagement with audiences through his works, and ability to see the medium of drawing as something that's not limited to
the pictorial plane.
Even the hapless vacationers who inhabit
the pictorial plane are part of this ambivalence, asserting their sovereignty while on the brink of being washed away.
Similar palettes, application and dynamics on
the pictorial planes.
AF: The forms in my work reside on
the pictorial plane and are physically encompassing.
The exhibition features a selection of works that exercise the boundaries of
the pictorial plane and straddle the line between image and object.
George Schulman's wildly exuberant, colorful and kinetic paintings and collages take the viewer on a roller coaster ride in and out of
the pictorial plane.
Throughout the history of painting, the rectangular surface has been likened to a window, and
the pictorial plane, an imaginary world.
Finding in its functions the possibility to visualize language in a manner that relieved words of their bureaucratic function, Houédard constructed
a pictorial plane and shaped their visual emergence.
The major trends today, still experiment with color, form,
pictorial planes, and we are witnesses to the rise of geometrical abstract works.
A Geometric Hard - Edge «Abstract» shapes in a flat
pictorial plane, Panel: Graphite and watercolor.
Moving back and forth between abstraction and figuration, he has depicted geometrical forms including dots, lines, triangles, square and ellipses, and rhythms of fresh and vivid colors on
the pictorial plane, and has created unique, illusionistic worlds of painting wherein each motif influences and merges into each other while preserving a descriptive quality.
A three - ton construction of steel, glass and far infrared light film, Haskins» 8 x 8 x 8 foot Skycube brings the full vertical dimension of the sky down to
the pictorial plane.
In Vance's canvases, the background no longer surrounds the object, but breaks through it — by opening and closing these spaces in
the pictorial plane the artist is able to create the illusion of a three - dimensional space.
As in Jasper John's work, the object «ruler» is both itself, serving as an actual measure of
the pictorial plane, and an artwork or a component of it.
These works, on view in this exhibition, allow the viewer to experience multiple color phenomena within one
pictorial plane.
Gallery walls are partially torn away to reveal multiple vantage points, fracturing
the pictorial plane.
Because the Mylar does not absorb the paint, the pigment ebbs and wanes across
the pictorial plane, evoking the fragility of flower petals.
In the 1960s, the Italian artist Lucio Fontana created Concetto Spaziale, a series of paintings that challenged established notions of
the pictorial plane by slashing and poking holes in the canvas.
Smith often frames his compositions in multi-hued outlines so that the visual experience is different on various entry points of
the pictorial plane.
His work is evocative of recent work by Richard Tuttle, since he is also unwilling to abandon allegiance to
the pictorial plane or formal concerns.
Here, the figures dominate their surrounding environment: while oscillating between submission and threat, human and animal, they haunt
the pictorial plane.
This message can only exist in such well - formulated pictorial schemes that harmonize the interplay between what the artist calls the «
pictorial plane» and the «plastic effect» of a painting.
With the introduction of complex angles, Voisine's
pictorial planes are charged with a self - containment that renders them almost sculptural.
A pinnacle of the first direction — «Tenth Street Corner» (1963)-- brings the image closer to the surface of
the pictorial plane, executed with a decisiveness à la Kline, where every line is mostly a single brush stroke, creating configurations of vibrating tensions, like strings of musical instruments.
His visual accounts are sparked by vivid elaborations on the manifold ways that color and form can be applied to manipulate
the pictorial plane.