Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Grade 9 Art - Day 12

Our next study in the terminology of art is the word plane.

Plane can have two meanings in visual arts.

1) A plane is a flat surface having a direction in space.
This sculpture rises in a vertical plane:

The pipe in this painting is on a horizontal plane:


Stonehenge occupies a circular plane:



The CN Tower is another example of vertical plane:


2) The second definition of plane in visual art is simply a flat surface.  A picture plane refers to the flat surface of a painting.  You will see several examples of a plaster relief on background plane in this room. 



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