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What is a picture plane?

What is a picture plane? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. In art, the imaginary plane correspondent with the physical surface of a drawing, painting or print.
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Light's bleaching glare may saturate the picture plane, obscuring tone, details and minute particulars.
The spatiality of Still's art is lateral, extending beyond but not into the picture plane.
The viewpoint in this type of perspective lies on a line perpendicular to the picture plane, passing through the central vanishing point.
This illusionism is contradicted by brushwork highlighting the front picture plane or establishing ambiguous layers of space lying beyond.
The gesso ground is sanded smooth so that acrylic glazes bead up and acquire a high-resolution look while emphasizing the picture plane.
A reflective road sign with diagonal stripes of black and white thrusts itself upward through the picture plane.

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