Painting without the use of 'conventional space'?

Question

I have this art project, and the process work is due tomorrow. I'm supposed to do a painting of a theme (I chose Trinidad and Tobago!) And then paint it, without the use of 'conventional space'(ie, foreground, middleground, and background).

But I don't understand how you can do a painting without things overlapping like that. Can someone help me understand, or show an example in painting.

Answer 1

If it has no conventional space, then its flat, like a map, or you draw things like a child would, where objects are stacked up on each other but not getting any smaller to denote distance. See traditional or tribal Australian art. The animals have all the organs showing, like an x-ray, not because that's what the artist sees, but because he knows its in there. If a pond is round for example, you dont paint it like a oval, like what you'd see in a photo, you paint is round, as though from above. Paint what you know to be, not what you see optically.
At least that's one way to start. If all else fails, think Picasso. See his painting "Mediterranean Landscape"

Answer 2

You need to look at prehistoric art and some of the Egyptian works. Those all predate "conventional space"

Answer 3

well, i dont know a proven technique, but here are a few tips.
1. stay away from landscapes, they all use conventional space.
2. portraits use no conventional space.
3. abstracts sometime have no conventional space

Answer 4

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/trinidad_and_tobago.gif

Actually this is one. No '3d'.