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picture plane
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picture plane
In perspective drawing, a plane upon which can be projected a system of lines or rays from an object to form an image or picture.


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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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