1.   An avenue down the center bisects the gauzy atmosphere, enhanced by the sharply focused black vehicle parked in the right corner of the picture plane.

2.   Both are quiet compositions filled with figures that peacefully dominate the picture plane.

3.   A few of his close-up pictures, with people ranged horizontally across the picture plane, suddenly open up to deep or sharply angled perspectives.

4.   All worthy stuff, but when needlework bursts out of the picture plane, the fun begins.

5.   Caillebotte uses a similar approach in other works in the room, including paintings of nasturtiums gracefully twining their way across a flattened picture plane.

6.   He says the Rivera, with its big figures flattened and pushed up against the picture plane, has always been important to him.

7.   The face is urgent, pushed to the front of the picture plane, so much so that the edges of the golden hat are cut off.

8.   The space behind the picture plane is shallow and ambiguous, as it often seems with Chardin.