THE PICTURE PLANE

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THE PICTURE PLANE
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Vocabulary

• Picture plane
• Frame
• Figure and ground
• The Elements of Design
• The Principles of Design
• Representational art
• Abstraction/abstract
• Nonrepresentational

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The Picture Plane

• A flat, bordered surface upon which artists make
  their work

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The Picture Plane

• In perspective, it is the surface upon which
  dimensional form is mentally projected and then
  rendered.

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The Picture Plane

• Acts as a window through which we view an image

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Visual Components of the Picture Plane Objective
Vocabulary

• Frame
• Figure and ground
• The Elements of Design
• Media

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The Elements of Design

• Point
• Line/edge
• Shape/form
• Space
• Color
• Value
• Texture
• Light
• Time

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Frame

• Is the outermost limit of the picture plane

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Frame

• Is the edge of separation between the image and
  real space what is contained in the picture
  plane, and what lies outside it

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Frame

• Or, it plays with intersections of reality

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Figure and Ground

• Is manifest in relationships based on visual
  differentiations

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Figure and Ground

• Is the relationship, usually on the picture
  plane, of a discrete shape and its background

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Figure and Ground

• The figure is a primary, positive shape that is
  noticeably separated from a (back)ground

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Figure and Ground

• Ambiguous

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3 Ambiguous figure ground relationships
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Figure and Ground

• Reversal-
• black to white figure and ground exchange
  dominance

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FG Reversals
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Visual components of the picture plane
Subjective composition

• The Principles of Design
• Process

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The Principles of Design

• Harmony
• Balance
• Scale/proportion
• Rhythm/pattern
• Unity
• Variety
• Emphasis/dominance
• Contrast
• Movement

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Other picture planes??
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Other picture planes??
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Other picture planes??
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Three Modes in which artists communicate via the
picture plane

• As a reported domain
• As as an interpretive, constructed domain
• As a self-referential, constructed domain

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As a reported domain

• Representational art
• realism

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Representational Art

• Depicts objects, people, landscapes, events as
  they do, or would appear in the real world
• Expresses observable reality through common
  points of reference things we have all seen or
  experienced

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Representational Art
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Realism

• Subtext of Representational
• Focuses on depicting physical evidence

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Photo Realism ESTES
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Representational Art

• Still life

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Representational Art

• As Portraiture

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Representational Art

• As landscape

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Representational Art

• As Narrative a purposeful story, tale or
  description of events

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Representational, narrative Art

• Genre
• Religious
• Mythic
• Historical
• ( social inventory, allegorical, instructive,
  propaganda)

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Genre
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Religious
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Mythical
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Historical
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As an interpretive, constructed domain

• As Abstraction
• As Surrealism
• As Collage

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As an interpretive, constructed domain

• Relies on personal interpretation and expression
  of the internal and the external
• Transitions between the real, the imagined, the
  invented and the reinterpreted
• Creates iconic, metaphorical, or transcendent
  imagery
• Narrative may be located within process and a
  personal vocabulary of form

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Relies on personal interpretation and expression
of the internal and the external
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Transitions between the real, the imagined, the
invented and the reinterpreted
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Iconic
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Metaphorical
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Transcendent
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Narrative may be located within process and a
personal vocabulary of form
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Abstraction

• A distillation and transformation of observable
  reality
• An interpretation and translation that presents a
  redefined version of observable reality

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Abstraction

• Distills the artists subject to its essential
  qualities
• Originating with recognizable forms, but
  restructured into a new, personal reality

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Abstraction

• Distills the artists subject to its essential
  qualities
• Originating with recognizable forms, but
  restructured into a new, personal reality

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Demoisselles DAvignion, 1907, Pablo Picasso
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Abstraction

• Often expresses the familiar in unfamiliar ways

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Surrealism

• Expressions of the unconscious mind
• resolution of two states, dream and reality
  Breton

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Collage

• From French to paste
• Transitions between the intrinsic identity of the
  material used and its ability to create illusion

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Mondrian
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As a Self-referential, Constructed Domain

• As Nonrepresentational Art

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Nonrepresentational Art

• Is the personal invention of the artist
• A structure of elements and principles, materials
  and process that visually refers only to itself

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Nonrepresentational Art

• May reference philosophy or spirituality through
  its form

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Nonrepresentational Art

• May exist only to explore the visual sense the
  physics and pleasure of seeing

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Nonrepresentational Art

• May emphasize process

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Nonrepresentational work
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Nonrepresentational work
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Nonrepresentational work
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