Chapter 5 Space
• Shape and Two Dimensional Space
Title: Lemons, May 16, 1984
Artist: Donald Sultan
Date: 1984
Source/Museum: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Gift of Sydney and
Frances Lewis Foundation. Photo: Katherine Wetzel. © 1996 Viginia Museum of Fine
Arts.
Medium: Latex, tar on vinyl tile over wood
Size: 97 in. x 97 ½ in.
Shape
1. Completely flat that
implies 3-dimensional
space.
2. Measured as Height X
Width
3. Ground as positive and
negative space
1. Positive space
commands
attention
2. Negative space
falls back
Title: Rubin vase
Artist: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Perceptual
Experience
1. Figure-ground reversals:
2. Perceptual experience
3. depends on our recognition
of spatial relationships
between objects
4. Usually foreground and
background.
Title: Self
Artist: Martin Puryear
Date: 1978
Source/Museum: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Medium: Polychromed red cedar and mahogany
Size: 69 x 48 x 25 in.
Mass
1. A form that has there dimensions
2. Measured as Height X Width X Depth
3. Suppose to represent the self
1. Weathered and old
2. Secret fragility
Title: Two Figures
Artist: Barbara Hepworth
Date: 1947-1948
Source/Museum: Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis. Gift of John Rood Sculpture Collection.
Medium: Elmwood and white paint
Size: 38 x 17 in.
Negative Space
1. The Negative
Space suggests
anatomy
Title: Feast-making spoon (Wunkirmian)
Artist: n/a
Date: 20th century
Source/Museum: Liberia/Ivory Coast, Dan. The Seattle Art Museum. Gift
of Katherine C. White and the Boeing Company, 81.17.204. Photo: Paul
Macapia.
Medium: Wood and iron
Size: Height 24 ¼ in.
Container of Social Good
1. Wunkirle, hospitable woman
of the tribe
Negative Space
Title: Suney
Artist: Olafur Eliasson
Date: 1995
Title: Clowns
Artist: Charles Demuth
Date: Undated
Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of
Charles F. Ikle, 1963 (64.27.6). Photo © 1992 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Size: 7 ½ x 11 in.
1. Picture Plane: are of the
artwork
2. Reserve: untouched part
of a canvas painting :white
ground of the paper
Title: Deliverance
Artist: Steve DiBenedetto
Date: 2004
Source/Museum: Courtesy of Nolan Eckman Gallery, Collection
of Morris Orden, New York, SD0522.
Medium: Colored pencil and acrylic paint on paper
Size: 30 x 22 ½ in.
1. Creating Illusion on 2
dimensional space
2. Change in scale
3. Overlapping objects
Representing Three
Dimensional Space
Perspective:
One Point and Two Point
Linear Perspective
Title: One-point linear perspective. Left: frontal recession, street level.
Right: diagonal recession, elevated position.
Artist: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Frontal recession Diagonal Recession
Title: Perspective Analysis of Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, from the Maesta Altarpierce
Artist: Duccio
Date: 1308-11
Title: The Last Supper
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Date: c. 1495-1498
Source/Museum: Refectory, Monastery of Santa Maria delle
Grazie, Milan. A.K.G., Berlin/SuperStock.
Medium: Mural (oil and tempera on plaster)
Size: 15 ft. 1 1/8 in. x 28 ft. 10 ½ in.
1. Painted in the refectory
http://milan.arounder.com/en/churches/santa-maria-delle-grazie-church/leonardo-s-last-supper.html
Title: Perspective analysis of The Last Supper
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Date: c. 1495-1498
Source/Museum: Refectory, Monastery of Santa Maria delle
Grazie, Milan.
Medium: Mural (oil and tempera on plaster)
Size: 15 ft. 1 1/8 in. x 28 ft. 10 ½ in.
1. One point linear perspective
2. One vanishing point: frontal recession
3. Vantage point: where the viewer is positioned
1. frontal or diagonal
Title: Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte
Date: 1876-1877
Source/Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago. Charles H. and Mary F. S.
Worcester Collection, 1964.336. Photo © 1999 The Art Institute of Chicago. All
rights reserved.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 83 ½ x 108 ¾ in.
1. Two point linear perspective
Title: Perspective analysis of Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte
Date: 1876-1877
Source/Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago. Charles H. and Mary F. S.
Worcester Collection, 1964.336. Photo © 1999 The Art Institute of Chicago. All
rights reserved.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 83 ½ x 108 ¾ in.
Title: Two-point linear perspective
Artist: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Title: Kumano Mandala
Artist: n/a
Date: Kamakura period c. 1300
Source/Museum: © 2002 The Cleveland Museum of Art. John
L. Severance Fund, 1953.16.
Medium: Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
Size: 52 ¼ x 24 ¼ in.
Oblique Projection
1. Sides of object are parallel
2. One face of the object parallel to the picture plane
3. In this picture positioning adds another element of depth
Title: Color Construction, Project for a private house
Artist: Theo van Doesburg and Cornelius van Eesteren
Date: 1923
Source/Museum: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Edgar J. Kaufman, Jr.
Fund. Photo © The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed by Scala/Art Resource, New York. © 2003 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Beeldrecht, Amsterdam.
Medium: Gouache and ink on paper
Size: Sheet: 22 ½ x 22 ½ in.
Axonometric
Projection
1. All lines are at an angle to the
picture plane
2. All lines remain parallel and do
not meet at a vanishing point
Title: Sunset – Niagara River (No. 609)
Artist: George Barker
Date: c. 1870-1875
Source/Museum: International Museum of Photography at
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
Medium: Stereograph
Size: n/a
1. Monocular: one eye point of view
2. Binocular: two eye point of view, our vision
3. Stereoscope: used to depict binocular vision
Distortion of Space and
Foreshortening
Title: Man with Big Shoes
Artist: Photographer unknown
Date: c. 1890
Source/Museum: Library of Congress.
Medium: Stereograph
Size: n/a
Title: Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Date: c. 1527
Source/Museum: Second edition. One of 138 woodcuts and diagrams in
Underweysung der Messung, mit dem Zirkel und richtscheyt (Teaching of Measurement with Compass and Ruler). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Horatio Greenough Curtis Fund.
Medium: Woodcut
Size: 3 x 8 ½ in.
Title: The Dead Christ
Artist: Andrea Mantegna
Date: c. 1501
Source/Museum: Brera Gallery, Milan. Nimatallah/Art
Resource, New York.
Medium: Tempera on canvas
Size: 26 x 30 in.
1. Foreshortening
1. Dimensions
are adjusted
in
accordance
to the point
of view
Modern Experiments
in Photogaphy
• Shadows are more
animated than
figures
• Arial view of forms
Title: Weird Street
Artist: Umbo (Otto Umbehr)
Date: 1928
Picture of
shapes
Title: Abstraction
Artist: Paul Strand,
Date: 1916
1. Close up of objects
1. No single objects is totally visible
2. Attention on the shadow and its pattern
3. Abstraction of the real space
Title: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)
Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1908-1909
Source/Museum: The Hermitage, St. Petersburg. © Alinari/Art Resource, New
York. © 2003 Succession H Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 70 ⅞ x 86 5/8 in.
1. Verisimilitude:
apparent “truth” or
apparent depiction
of reality
2. One large overall
field of color and
design
Title: Mme. Cézanne in a Red Armchair
Artist: Paul Cézanne
Date: 1877
Source/Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of
Robert Treat Paine 2nd, 44.77.6.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 28 ½ x 22 in.
The play of pattern and color rather
than depth or illusions
Title: Color and Information
Artist: Terry Winters
Date: 1998
Source/Museum: Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks
Gallery, New York.
Medium: Oil and alkyd resin on canvas
Size: 9 x 12 ft.
Title: [collection]
Artist: Mary Flanagan
Date: 2001-present
Source/Museum: www.maryflanagan.com/collection.htm
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Title: Topological Slide
Artist: Michael Scroggins and Stewart Dickson
Date: 1993
Source/Museum: Digital images courtesy Michael Scroggins. ©
1999 Michael Scroggins.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a