AN INVESTIGATION OF LINE AND PLANE RELATIONSHIPS IN TWO CONCEPTS OF PAINTING APPROVED § ^ y

The problem of this investigation is the combining of the spatial concepts of Paul Cezanne and the Analytical Cubists in a single painting. A series of paintings were undertaken to examine (explore) this spatial combination. Of the paintings completed, eight are illustrated and de-scribed in detail. In this study, the method whereby these spatial concepts were activated rests upon the assumptions* (1) the basic structural elements of the paintings are line and plane; (2) the structural elements are expressed visibly by modifying the canvases with color, valu^pknd texture. Cezanne's paintings retain illusory depth by careful use of color, value and overlapping planes. The forms of the subject are flattened. However, by re-enforcing edges of planes with line, this flattened effect suggests, visually, that space and form (^y)interchange, The Cubists carrie