Pictorial Space

The smaller objects and figures in the distance look as though they are on the same plane as the larger objects in the foreground.
Pictorial space. It s only our knowledge that objects appear smaller when they are further away that suggests this interpretation. Picture plane the two dimensional picture surface. A change in pictorial space the impressionists treatment of pictorial space was also often unusual. Traditional academic artists tended to favor centered closed and balanced compositions such as david s oath of the horatii in which the action is carefully staged for the viewer at a measured distance back from the picture plane.
Pigment any color ing agent made from natural or synthetic substances used in paint s or drawing materials.