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Planar Exercise

Rowena Reed Kostellow Digital Archive

a color photograph of a studio exercise featuring balanced planar forms
Student Work, Meghan Lighty, 2010s
a color photograph of a studio exercise featuring intersecting planar forms
Student Work, Author Unknown, 1990s
a color photograph of a studio exercise featuring intersecting planar forms
Student Work, Author Unknown, 2010s
a color photograph of a studio exercise featuring intersecting planar forms
Student Work, Author Unknown, 1990s
a color photograph of a studio exercise featuring intersecting planar forms
Student Work, Author Unknown, 1990s

Planar studies are formal exercises composed entirely of flat elements with surface direction and slant unaccompanied by mass.