NOUN
- the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work
How To Use picture plane In A Sentence
- The sheer size of both works easily reveals each grain of color within the picture plane so that they appear as contemporary reflections of the pointillist style of Georges Seurat.
- Digital modification stands in for genetic, and so the animals are lengthened, spiralled or moved across the picture plane as if a magnetic force - an exterior one - operated.
- Here the main event is limned large on the picture plane.
- Leo Steinberg coined the phrase "flatbed picture plane" for the Rauschenbergs. NYT > Home Page
- Perceptually tricky yet highly engaging, Channel 11 is an encaustic painting on wood with a gridded picture plane of equally sized beige, brown and blue squares.
- A reflective road sign with diagonal stripes of black and white thrusts itself upward through the picture plane.
- This illusionism is contradicted by brushwork highlighting the front picture plane or establishing ambiguous layers of space lying beyond.
- This illusionism is contradicted by brushwork highlighting the front picture plane or establishing ambiguous layers of space lying beyond.
- A bird in flight emerges from a field of slate blue on the upper right, wings beating toward the picture plane.
- Light's bleaching glare may saturate the picture plane, obscuring tone, details and minute particulars.
