Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
perspective plane (which see, underperspective ).
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Examples
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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.
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Here there is no peep-hole, no frame or picture-plane.
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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.
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T h e n turn to see another view, and then another, always keeping the picture-plane parallel to the front of your face.
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M o v e it about a bit until the picture-plane seems balanced comfortably.
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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.
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Also, think back on this basic conception of the picture-plane and our working definition of drawing:
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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.
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In the drawing you did just now, your o w n hand in of the picture-plane.
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- just what y o u see flattened on the picture-plane.
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