plane

Examples of plane in the following topics:

• Shape and Volume

  • A "plane" refers to any surface area within space.
  • In two-dimensional art, the "picture plane" is the flat surface that the image is created upon, such as paper, canvas, or wood.
  • Three-dimensional figures may be depicted on the flat picture plane through the use of the artistic elements to imply depth and volume, as seen in the painting Small Bouquet of Flowers in a Ceramic Vase by Jan Brueghel the Elder.
  • Three-dimensional figures may be depicted on the flat picture plane through the use of the artistic elements to imply depth and volume.

• Distortions of Space and Foreshortening

  • It is impossible to accurately depict three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional plane.
  • A method for presenting foreshortened geometry systematically onto a plane surface was unknown for another 300 years.
  • These projectors intersect with an imaginary plane of projection and an image is created on the plane by the points of intersection.
  • Essentially it is just barrel distortion, but only in the horizontal plane.
  • Giotto is one of the most notable pre-Renaissance artists to recognize distortion on two-dimensional planes.

• Color Field Painting

  • Color Field painting can be recognized by its large fields of solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.
  • Color Field is characterized primarily by its use of large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.
  • Moving away from the gesture and angst of Action painting towards flat, clear picture planes and a seemingly calmer language, Color Field artists used formats of stripes, targets and simple geometric patterns to concentrate on color as the dominant theme their paintings.
  • The flat, solid picture plane typical of Color Field paintings is evident in this piece by Barnet Newman, where the color red takes centre stage.

• Space

  • Artists have devoted a great deal of time to experimenting with perspectives and degrees of flatness of the pictorial plane.
  • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is an example of cubist art, which has a tendency to flatten the picture plane, and its use of abstract shapes and irregular forms suggest multiple points of view within a single image.

• Qualities of Line

  • Line orientation gives an element a position on a plane.

• Time and Motion

  • For example, on a flat picture plane, an image that is smaller and lighter colored than its surroundings will appear to be in the background.

• Cézanne

  • He used planes of color and small brushstrokes to form complex fields and convey intense study of his subjects.
  • To this end, he structurally ordered whatever he perceived into simple forms and color planes.

• Linear Perspective

  • Linear perspective is a technique artists developed during the Renaissance to accurately depict three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional picture plane, such as the canvas of a painting.
  • Any number of vanishing points are possible in a drawing, one for each set of parallel lines that are at an angle relative to the plane of the drawing.

• Art History Methodology

  • This approach examines how the artist uses a two-dimensional picture plane or the three dimensions of sculptural or architectural space to create his or her art.

• Earthworks

  • While a number of contemporary artists create work in the tradition of earthworks and Land Art such as Andy Goldsworthy, Vito Acconci, Michael Heizer and Chris Booth, it is largely felt that the movement lost one of its most important figureheads and began to fade following the 1973 death of Robert Smithson in a plane crash.