He often re-purposed and painted over canvases to unearth new compositions, pushing the spatial boundaries of
the traditional picture plane.
Demonstrating a willingness to push beyond the appearance of perfection, she encouraged the paint to run, goop, and stray beyond borders of
the traditional picture plane.
The intention is to create what the artist calls a «suspended» and constructed array of forms in tiers that build outward into the gallery space from
the traditional picture plane.
In my 3D work I combine pencil lines with pre-designed Lucite ovals that have been manipulated with paper and paint and are suspended away from
the traditional picture plane.»
The gradual arc of gray iron reaches out of the space defined by
the traditional picture plane to break new ground (literally and metaphorically), occupying an area normally denied to it by wall mounted work.
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.
Not exact matches
He asks the viewer whether it is possible to distinguish different
planes, foreground from background - the form of a
traditional picture
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.
Led by Picasso and Braque, the Cubists dismantled
traditional perspective and modeling in the round in order to emphasize the twodimensional
picture plane.
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.
Eschewing
traditional compositional formats in favor of unexpected cropping and juxtapositions, Altfest creates a compelling friction in the
picture plane.
Her abstract floral still life paintings use a Cubist technique to divide the
picture plane, but her palette is a more
traditional and referential one.
From 1970 onward, he developed several series in which he expanded the uniform
picture plane, not only visually but also physically, by departing from the
traditional flat format of the canvas.
The destruction of
traditional perspectival space in the
picture plane has defined everything from cubism through Ellsworth Kelly and Andy Warhol all the way up to Takashi Murakami at the turn of the millennium, making «flat» one of the prime qualities sought in good, honest painting.
With their origins found around the year of 1962, his signature mirror paintings use the reflective
picture plane to draw both the viewer and the environment into the work of art, toying with the
traditional notion of the painted image being a fixed and uninterruptible moment in time.
«It seemed it was not a mirrored object but an object full of mirroredness... If the
traditional sublime is in deep space, then this is proposing that the contemporary sublime is in front of the
picture plane, not beyond it this is a whole new spatial adventure.
If the Abstract Expressionists sought to vanquish the focal points of
traditional painting through a balanced fragmentation of the
picture plane, Saccoccio does the opposite.
«Grotjahn's abstractions are, in relation to
traditional pictorial modes, a matter of having your cake and eating it too, of experiencing vertiginous spatial illusions only to be brought back to the level ground of modernist flatness - only then to have the
picture plane once again yield to the probing eye,» curator Robert Storr wrote in LA Push - Pull / Po - Mo - Stop - Go.
These artworks were the first to obscure the
traditional distinction between fine art painting and sculpture, by violating the
picture plane with the incorporation of three - dimensional «objets trouvés».
In short, Pollock (and others) jettisoned all the
traditional concepts of composition, space, volume and depth, allowing the flatness of the
picture plane to take centre stage.
Between them, they jettisoned many of the
traditional concepts of composition, space, volume and depth, allowing the flatness of the
picture plane to take centre stage.
Initiated in 1962, Pistoletto's signature mirror paintings use the reflective
picture plane to draw both viewer and environment into the work, playing with
traditional notions of the painted image as a fixed moment in time.