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In traditional illusionistic painting using perspective, the picture plane can be thought of as the glass of the notional window through which the viewer looks into the representation of reality that lies beyond. In practice the picture plane is the same as the actual physical surface of the painting.
In painting, photography, graphical perspective and descriptive geometry, a picture plane is an image plane located between the "eye point" (or oculus) and the object being viewed and is usually coextensive to the material surface of the work.
The Picture Plane is the flat two-dimensional surface on which we draw or project an image in perspective. In our illustration, it is a simple task to draw the two rectangles if they are parallel to the picture plane. The Ground Plane is at 90 degrees to the picture plane.
Picture plane. When an artist creates an impression of space within a painting the picture plane is the transparent division between this fictive internal space and the real space outside, in which the viewer is placed.
The picture plane is an imaginary flat surface that acts as the boundary between the three-dimensional world and the two-dimensional representation of that world on a drawing or painting.
‘Plane’ in art is commonly used to describe the flat areas or patches visible in cubist paintings. These planes play a significant role in the composition and visual structure of cubist art. Furthermore, geometric abstract artists frequently make reference to planes when discussing their work.
