Line and Space

Wire Sculptures

Wood Sculpture

Straight Lines: Extending continuously in the same direction without curves.

Examples:

Sol LeWitt Works

Curved lines: A line that deviates from straightness in a smooth, continuous way.

Examples:

Sol LeWitt Works

Vertical Lines: the direction going straight up and down.

Examples:

Lucio Fontana Works

Horizontal lines: line direction going straight left and right.

Examples:

Sol LeWitt Works

Diagonal Lines: having a slanted direction. A straight line that is neither horizontal or vertical.

Examples:

Mark di Suvero Works

Actual Lines: are lines that are physically present in a design.

Examples:

George Rickey Works

Implied Lines: are those suggested by positions of shapes or objects.

Examples:

George Rickey Works


Sol LeWitt Works

Sight Lines: the line of intersection of a transparent material with an opaque material.

Examples:

George Rickey Works

Space: an element of art that refers to the distance or area between, around, above, below,or within things. Can be 2D or 3D description, flat, shallow, or deep, open, closed, positive or negative, actual, or ambiguous.

Examples:

Cynn Chadwick
George Rickey Works

Presence and Absence in Space: The presence in space is something that is present and absence in space is something that is not there.

Examples:

George Rickey Works


Sol LeWitt Works

Opened and Closed Space: Opened space is something that is shown to be free and able to move. Closed space is something that is shown to be not free and can only move inside the boundaries.

Examples:

Sol LeWitt Works

Kinetic Forms: is the art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effort.

Examples:

Alexander Calders works

David Ascalon
Jesus Soto
Lyman Whitaker

Proximity: Nearness in space, time, order, occurence, or relation.

Examples:

George Rickey Works

Closure: the recognition of meaning in an other wise unclear or incomplete image, because the brain has been able to draw on the previous experience to discover insufficient similarity between the image and those memories.

Examples:

George Rickey Works