II. LINE AND SPACE

Strait lines - when two points in space are connected in a constant direction.

Man Ray - Gift

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language - Julia Feld

Diego Giacometti - Console Cypresses

Splice #5 - Carolyn Ottmers 

Striding Man - Giacometti

Curved lines - a line that deviates from being straight.

Found Object Sculpture - Jean Buckwell

Surrender - Dey Young

Agile and Swift - Bart Walter

Temper Tantrum - Louise Bourgeois

Aleksandr Rodchenko - Spatial Construction no. 12

Vertical lines - travels in a 90º direction parallel to the y-axis.

“Cigarette Ash Landscape” - Yang Yongliang.

Juan Munoz

Sophie Taeuber-Arp - Dada Head

Marcel Duchamp - Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?

Gustav Klutsis - Maquette for Radio-Announcer

Horizontal lines - travels in a line parallel to the x-axis.

Little Dancer - Degas

Georges Vantongerloo - Construction of Volume Relations

Ewald Mataré Cow

Alexander Calder - Vache

Pablo Gargallo - Picador

Diagonal lines - straight lines that are neither vertical or horizontal

Constantin Brancusi - The Cock

Actual lines - a line that exists on the form of a sculpture.

Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows - Cai Guo-Qiang

Quilled Heart - Sarah Yakawonis.

Implied lines - a line that is created by shapes around an area that make the viewer see a separation of space, or look like a line.

Gary Churchman

Juan Munoz

Recession - Jeff Koons

Balloon Flower - Jeff Koons

Sight line - The hypothetical line between the viewer’s eyes and what they are viewing.


Space - the area that all things are contained in.
Presence in space - when an object appears to use three dimensional ideas, whether it be actual, or implied.

Cement Truck - Wim Delvoye

Absence in space - when something appears to be flattened or two dimensional. 

“Stick Insects” by Kyle Bean,

Opened space - when there is a break in a closed space

Band  - Richard Serra

Race Horse - Anna-Wili Highfield

Alexander Calder - The Hostess

Alexander Calder - Marion Greenwood

Alexander Calder - Elephant Chair with Lamp

Closed space - when the space is fully contained by object or line.

Do Not Abandon Me - Louise Bourgeois

Kinetic Form - when something has moving parts.
Proximity - the relationship between objects in space, or from work to viewer. 

Eddy - Mia Pearlman

Closure - when space has been fully enveloped by a form or line.