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2-D Design/Art

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2-D design

Ostensibly, 2d (2 dimensional) consists of images placed on
a flat surface. Of course in the same way that an -^artist
can create the illusion of 3 dimensions (or more) on a
flat piece of paper, there aren't really any such things
as 2d art.

If we draw on paper (even with the carefullest of pressures), the
applied material is AVOVE the paper or at best embedded into it.
When we consider a line drawn with a roller-ball pen on soft paper
(eg, previously soaked and dried Newton Winsor water-colur) as 
opposed to a stiff paper (such as Canson Stonehinge), then the way
that the mark is introduced changes the fundamental aesthetic
of the mark made and the surface "onto" which it iw introduced.

We could of course use a transfer process (such as stone lithography)
and possibley create the closest thing to a true 2d mark - and of 
course it goes without saying that modern, 4-colour (YMCK) plano
graphic presses (eg, used for printing magazines) create at least
something passing for 2d. 

But, then what of the surface itself?

For example, the "2d" artist David McCullough paints acrylic glazes
on tiles, and while they appear (at first glance? from a distance?)
2d, they clearly are very impasto style with thick brush marks (some
times).

And of course, if we introduce project images onto a wall, they are
pretty 2d - again depending upon the texture of the "screen". 

So, what if we project a slide show with fixed focus, and introduce
smoke into the area - will the image "form" (ie, be focused, and
thus an entact 2d image?) into the space. And of course, in the 
future with more properly "star-trek-like" holograms: What then?


Maugham
  "encore" - 1:19 into the trio (i think) the trapeeze act...
Glynis Johns, Nigel Patrick, Kay ASlaksh (1952)
The ant and the grasshopper  winter cuise  gigolo and gigolette