They break up the
picture plane in a similar fashion to the first one.
From this vantage point, many of Rubenstein's assertions about the provisionality, or the eternal doubt, of painting don't exactly acknowledge the way in which Jackson Pollock's opening of the
picture plane can be in service of a performative act, or that artists such as Yves Klein and Janine Antoni have since made this possibility explicit.
The illustrations accompanying this essay are photographic reproductions of drawings made in an attempt to reconsider the conventions of the
picture plane in architectural drawing (12).
objects occupy higher positions on the
picture plane. And I don't
The shattering of space and flattening of the
picture plane initiated by Cezanne is of at least equal importance to abstraction as neo-impressionism was.
Getting students to think of shapes as gray tones that interact to create visual excitement on a
picture plane can be challenging since most want to go right to color.
It is rambling and repetitious, and a little strange in the sense that it leaves the impression that when the
picture plane is not Alberti's window, it might be Alice's looking glass.
From his early life onwards, he seems to have been fascinated with the problem of covering the whole
picture plane although this preoccupation did not come to dominate his art until 1937.
By contrast, What Decomposes Is Nature has an excessive quality: Green leaves, sprigs of fir, dry branches, and orange winter cherries fill the
picture plane without any apparent compositional order.
The
picture plane fizzes and buzzes with super-charged action disguising to some extent the length of the text, which offers plenty of reading practice.
This further suggests that by making color the focus of the work, she allows it to function rhythmically across the
picture plane in a way that is quite different from Op Art, in which color clashed in such a way as to suggest an illusion in front of the painting.
See also: Perspective projection