Picture Plane

Here there is no peep-hole, no frame or picture-plane. ❋ Unknown (1888)

According to the simple laws of perspective, if the eye is at thirty inches from the picture-plane or frame (as declared by a moon drawn of a little more than a quarter of an inch broad), a post or a man six feet high drawn on the canvas as three inches high absolutely and definitely means that that man or post is sixty feet away from the observer inside the picture. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Part picture-plane and part screen-capture, this is a speculative endeavour, a superimposition of multiple "ways of seeing" the same universal subject - the blanket of urban fabric that covers much of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also, think back on this basic conception of the picture-plane and our working definition of drawing: ❋ Unknown (2009)

M o v e it about a bit until the picture-plane seems balanced comfortably. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the best sense, main lines and proportion ... of you have expressed yourself. why and how the perspective causes an apparent change of Use of the picture-plane has a long tradition in the history of direction in the lines and change of art. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the drawing you did just now, your o w n hand in of the picture-plane. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the years before photography T h e quick answer: D r a w i n g is \ "c o p y i n g \" what you see on the was invented, artists generally understood and used the concept picture-plane. ❋ Unknown (2009)

T h e n turn to see another view, and then another, always keeping the picture-plane parallel to the front of your face. ❋ Unknown (2009)

- just what y o u see flattened on the picture-plane. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here is yet another of the paradoxes of drawing: T h e flat, t w o - d i m e n s i o n a l image y o u see (with one eye Seeing perspective drawing as closed) on the picture-plane, w h e n copied onto your drawing depicting three-dimensional space paper, miraculously \ "looks\" three-dimensional to the person who is apparently a learned percept, v i e w s y o u r drawing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

- o n - p l a s t i c that y o u did earlier, but also try to see well just plunging in and they often these relationships by i m a g i n i n g a picture-plane hovering enjoy it very much. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This would have divided the picture-plane into thirds instead of halves, bringing it into the form elsewhere recommended as being the arrangement of Claude’s best pictures. ❋ Henry Rankin Poore (1899)