picture plane

1. 1.

   the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work

   Broaderplane

   Part ofperspective

Questions about picture plane

What does picture plane mean?

picture plane means "the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work".

Is picture plane a common word?

picture plane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.