Simultaneously, figures came to be placed parallel to the picture plane.
The table is tipped upward, almost meeting the picture plane.
What links the two shows is preoccupation with the picture plane.
Or it can be bright and white, striding forward almost out of the picture plane.
The camera is situated close up, so the women seem pressed toward us and the picture plane.
And, of course, there was a lot of blank picture plane left to cover.
The light that passes through the picture plane obviously can not be traced.
Instead, lines that represent those rays of light are drawn on the picture plane.
Early man observed that things appear to get smaller and to climb up the picture plane.
In the other version they are closer to the picture plane and more spaced.