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picture plane
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Noun1.picture plane - the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or paintingpicture plane - the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work
linear perspective, perspective - the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
plane, sheet - (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"


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This edition has 71 new b&w illustrations and 14 new color plates and accompanying descriptions, new assignments, and discussions of collage, Chine colle, and irregularly shaped picture planes.
Photographed with a 4x5 camera, uninhabited fields and mountainsides, sprinkled with trees and rocks, appear as flat picture planes covered with tiny dots or sharp lines.
So Leo Steinberg concluded that the shift to the flat-bed picture plane was "no more than a symptom of changes which go far beyond the questions of picture planes, or of painting as such.
 
 
 
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