Visual weight, height in the picture plane, and representational gravity

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy L. Hubbard
Keyword(s):  
Picture Plane ◽  
Representational Gravity

Painting, aesthetics of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Picture Plane ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Dimensional Picture ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Why care about painting as an art? Does it offer to engage our aesthetic interest in ways that other art forms do not, or does it merely reproduce the aesthetic satisfactions they provide? Most paintings involve both marks on a surface, and something represented by those marks. Some attempts to say what is distinctive about painting concentrate on the former feature, understanding the art as an exploration of the two-dimensional picture plane. Others concentrate on the representational aspect, seeking to find something special about the things painting can represent, or the way in which it achieves this. The most promising approaches acknowledge both aspects, and do so as essential elements in the experiencewe have of painting. One such approach turns on the idea that the configurational aspect ‘inflects’ the representational, so that what we see in the picture itself somehow involves the marks from which the painting is composed. Another sees painting as offering aesthetic values found elsewhere, but in a distinctive form. Taking seriously the idea of our experience of painting also helps us to say something about a set of paintings we are otherwise in danger of ignoring - abstract works.

Painting, aesthetics of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Picture Plane ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Dimensional Picture ◽  
The Way

Why care about painting as an art? Does it offer to engage our aesthetic interest in ways that other art forms do not, or does it merely reproduce the aesthetic satisfactions they provide? Most paintings involve both marks on a surface, and something represented by those marks. Some attempts to say what is distinctive about painting concentrate on the former feature, understanding the art as an exploration of the two-dimensional picture plane. Others concentrate on the representational aspect, seeking to find something special about the things painting can represent, or the way in which it achieves this. The most promising approach acknowledges both aspects, and does so as essential elements in the experience we have of painting. If successful, this allows us to see painting as offering aesthetic values found elsewhere, but in a distinctive form. It also helps us to say something about a set of paintings we are otherwise in danger of ignoring – abstract works.

Hofmann, Hans (1880–1966)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa Noel Robbins
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
York City ◽  
Abstract Expressionism ◽  
Picture Plane ◽  
Depth Of Field ◽  
New York School ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Core Group ◽  
The Core ◽  
Clement Greenberg

Hans Hofmann was a German–American painter associated with Abstract Expressionism. Known as much for his paintings as for his role as a teacher, Hofmann moved to New York City in 1932. Much older than the core group of New York School painters, Hofmann acted as a kind of bridge between European and American modernism. Hofmann’s paintings are highly recognizable: they feature large planes of thickly applied, bold color, often interspersed with expressionistic fields of gestural painting. The result, which can be seen in his 1962 painting Memoria in Aeternum, is a dynamic play with depth of field and colour relations. Hofmann referred to this spatial and optical play as the "push–pull" effect, indicating the manner in which areas of a canvas can appear to push back behind the picture plane and pull forward into the viewer’s space, while simultaneously reading as flat surface. The spatial and material relationality introduced through this device influenced a generation of New York painters and critics, both those taught directly by Hofmann and those who learned of his theories through second parties. Hofmann’s students from this period include Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Allan Kaprow and, importantly, Clement Greenberg. Many of their first lessons in modernist painting took place in his school.

Encounters—Ongoing

ARTMargins ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Hiba Kalache
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Picture Plane ◽  
Vested Interest ◽  
Flowering Plant ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Ownership Of Land ◽  
Tree Branch ◽  
Simple Tree ◽  
Geopolitical Context

The series of drawings, Encounters – ongoing stems from chance meetings on leisurely road trips around the mountains of Lebanon. The drawings act as markers of my conversations with landowners, farmers, and people directly working in the fields. The formal particularities of drawing, and specifically the use of ink washes, allows for an approach that is both intuitive and intentional. This approach reproduces the spontaneity of these accidental or brief exchanges with people who have a vested interest in Lebanese land. Each conversation is represented by a simple tree branch, or a fragment of a (flowering) plant, belonging to the site and moment the encounter took place. This fragment indexes an encounter in which the farmer's story, experience, or relationship to the land and its borders was shared. Excerpts from our exchanges are also hand-written in Arabic on the picture plane. In the directness of the creative process, and the abstraction of the conversations, this project alludes to, and yet blurs, the sectarian divisions upon which the ownership of land is based, as well as a present geopolitical context. What I share is the marking of unplanned encounters through the representations of fragmented personal accounts along specific terrains and borders.

Positioning and the picture plane

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-220
Author(s):  
Nat Chard
Keyword(s):  
Picture Plane
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