The violated picture plane ends up as an extreme workout in push - pull that would probably send Hans Hofmann spinning in his grave.
Back in the days when Mel Ramos could paint Chiquita Banana pinups, Tom Wesselmann could sex up his still lifes by putting sunburned nudes with pubic hair into them, and Allen Jones could obnoxiously use a lifelike playmate on her knees as a coffee table, Marjorie Strider was making shaped canvases featuring 3 - D breasts that were smartly
violating the picture plane as if to one - up the men, who never noticed.
All but one are humorously pierced with found projectiles that conspicuously
violate the picture plane.
The other big deal was the idea of the integrity of the surface of the picture - that you should not
violate the picture plane.
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».
Not exact matches
Al Held famously remarked that this was the year he decided to
violate Clem Greenberg's
picture plane.
But they do that
picture -
plane trick that critic Rosalind Krauss tries to talk about in her essay for the 1997 Guggenheim retrospective, making Rauschenberg seem like a latter - day Hans Hofmann determined not to
violate the
picture -
plane.