The phrase
"picture plane" refers to the surface that we use to create and view pictures, like a canvas or a piece of paper. It is the area where artists create images and where we look at them.
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In particular, his denial of perspective presents each scene on a nearly
flat picture plane.
When I set out to make a work of art I am particularly interested in depicting multiple viewpoints, multiple perspectives within a
single picture plane.
The result are maze - like formations, locking in the eye and guiding it over the
entire picture plane.
However, here subtly shifting layers of the high - gloss enamel
white picture plane are framed by blue paint that extends out and around the support.
Her wall paintings aim to dissolve the boundaries between figure, ground and support — creating a
new picture plane that differs from her works on canvas.
So, I conceived of the canvas as one gesture - the
whole picture plane operating as one gesture... The studio became a laboratory.
Many of his paintings also produced optical effects as they played with the tension between the two -
dimensional picture plane and three - dimensional space.
In some cases, pieces of the photograph have been removed to reveal the watercolor layered underneath, blending the two into a
single picture plane.
My intention with the texture is to compel the viewer to getting closer and finding a particular area of interest within the vast universe of the
entire picture plane.
These painters create works both representational and abstract that simultaneously accept and challenge the limitations of the flat canvas and the
rectangular picture plane.
Building on the innovations of important artists like Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, Picasso created a completely flattened
picture plane in which he presented five prostitutes.
This effect - one that brings to mind Leo Steinberg's characterization of the flatbed
picture plane as «a receptor surface
He had completely abandoned the two - dimensional
picture plane by the early 60's and instead began focusing on three - dimensional forms, with materiality as the key part.
Through the careful application of surface treatments on walls, calculative placement of thin, angular, wood sculptures and the addition of signature painted fragments, Amm constructs a visual
picture plane from the tangible gallery space.
Through various media, LOSSLESS FORMS
FOR PICTURE PLANE explores the interrelations of film, coding, text, and Internet technologies.
For Steinberg, the
flatbed picture plane paradoxically represents a space where the artist transcends his earthly yoke and creates a more fully collective cultural place devout of figure, landscape, and detestable affect — in short, a space more fully reflecting the truth.
But the over-complicated line on the
flattened picture plane worked against them, reducing them to an illustrative mode of Cubism.
Perhaps it was the influence of James Rosenquist's vast dissected canvases that led Salle to work within
divided picture planes, or John Baldessari's tutelage at the California Institute of the Arts during the artist's formative years, or even his love for cinematic splitscreen effects.
Disregarding the flat
picture plane so celebrated by high Modernism, Held deliberately constructed the illusion of deep space, and then populated it with an unpredictable, animated interplay of edges, forms, volumes and, ultimately, ideas.
These shaped canvasses, in turn, were followed by more elaborate variations in which he rung changes on the
traditional picture plane, first in two and then in three dimensions.
The static, rigorous frontal view of a figure in the
shallow picture plane of Neoclassical practice was often also utilized by Mapplethorpe, with striking and beautiful results.
The
violated picture plane ends up as an extreme workout in push - pull that would probably send Hans Hofmann spinning in his grave.
For many artists in the exhibition, the radical language of modernist painting developed during the early twentieth century - of collapsing and
expanding picture planes responding to the frenetic pace and fragmentary encounters of modern life - continues to evolve as distortions and mutations of the image take on new permutations with each technological advance.
The large, multilayered paintings of Smith offer several access points: black line drawings that describe ordinary scenes from the point of view of an anonymous observer, text scribbled with airbrush paint that document the artist's stream - of - consciousness, and a
fragmented picture plane calling to mind a blurry photograph.
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The less ridged and fixed shapes allow the viewer's eye to move around freely and flow outside of the fixed confines of a
conventional picture plane.
This results in colourful, all - over compositions, where each element appears to jostle for its own space within the
crowded picture plane.
Subconsciously, the crucial white space that consumes the rest of Manalo's
picture plane offers itself as a kind of immortal reassurance.
Unlike Fontana, Shimamoto's «Ana» series featured delicately eroded
picture planes layered with industrial paint.
The fractured geometry and handmade aesthetic make for a vibrating and visually
active picture plane.
Further, beyond blurring the boundaries between abstract and figurative impulses, Gaman's insistence on developing an
ambiguous picture plane also serves to force the viewer to find new avenues of pictorial interpretation.
For many artists in the exhibition, the radical language of modernist painting developed during the early twentieth century — of collapsing and expanding
picture planes responding to the frenetic pace and fragmentary encounters of modern life — continues to evolve as distortions and mutations of the image take on new permutations with each technological advance.
In contrast to the traditional verticality of the
renaissance picture plane, which is dependent on head - to - toe correspondence with the viewer, with his combines Rauschenberg introduced the «flat - bed» plane and in doing so completely reoriented the pictorial surface so that it was no longer representative of a world space, but an analogue of operational processes.
The breadth of the exhibition — chronologically and stylistically — is illustrated when comparing a work such as Greene's # 10 (1935), composed of densely layered papers on a small scale in a variety of textures, shapes, and palette of muted hues, to Vicente's Untitled (1980), the
expansive picture plane dominated by emphatic vertical and horizontal linear forms in deep greens, purples, and reds.
Recalling Vuillard's interior paintings of the 1890s, Hodgkin establishes an emphatically flat and
frontal picture plane through simple pattern - like compositions.
Brushed overlapping swathes of rich yellows, burgundy, and petal pink are held in place by a passage of charcoal while a green dash floats in the upper
left picture plane.
denominator between the modeled wax surfaces of the veiled self - portrait «St. Sebastian — Born in 1951» (1975 - 79); Schnabel's very first abstracted mosaic of ceramic shards and
sculptural picture planes in «The Patients and The Doctors» (1978); the use of a soiled drop cloth as a pictorial ground in «The Mutant King» (1981); and the layering of fabric in the monochromatic «Abstract Painting on Blue Velvet» (1980).
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