Note, too, the punning congruence of picture surface and sea surface.

Again, illusion is forestalled by the prominence of the picture surface where an object is depicted.

Yet the object depicted quite simply is the picture surface under one reading, the surface indifferent to picture, another.

His forms, flat and open, were dispersed across the picture surface.

Every inch of the picture surface is acutely conscious.

The whole picture surface is brought to life by the interaction of the angular, shaded planes.

"Antietam No. 5" presents a dense black land mass, faintly arched at the top, that covers three-quarters of the picture surface.

In the 1960s, Hoyland's work was characterised by simple shapes, high-key colour and a flat picture surface.

This keeps the entire flat picture surface more evenly in focus - something notoriously hard to accomplish with large screen sizes.

The issue of equal attention, all-overness, when it comes to the picture surface relates to, among other things, his dislike of Rembrandt.