Monday, January 17, 2011

II. Line And Space

Straight lines – represents straight objects with negligible width and depth.

"Cubo Virtual" by Jesus Soto


'Pyramidian' Mark di Suvero
Pyramidian, Mark di Suvero

'Mother Peace' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero, "Mother Peace"

'Concetto Spaziale' Lucio Fontana


"Open Geometric Sculptures 2-2,1-1" by Sol Le Witt


Curved Lines – Lines that are always bending and change gradually.

'Tumbleweed' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero 1987 'Tumbleweed', Laumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri

'Origins' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero: Origins, 2001-04

'Rust Angel' Mark Di Suvero
Rust Angel by Mark Di Suvero

'Beethoven's Quartet' Mark Di Suvero
A Mark Di Suvero piece, "Beethoven's Quartet"

"Endless Wave" by Mark Di Suvero


Vertical lines – lines that go straight up and down.

Lucio Fontana


'Multiplo' Lucio Fontana


'Concetto spaziale' Lucio Fontana


'Concetto Spaziale' Lucio Fontana


"The Musical Fence" by Paul Matisse


Horizontal lines- line that goes left to right, parallel to the x-axis of the coordinate plane.

"Gate 3" by Bryan Tedrick


Lucio Fontana - Spacial Concept: Expectation


"Trusspiece" by Mark Di Suvero


Jim Bond - S6


"Of Memory" by Mark McClelland


Diagonal lines – line joining any two non-adjacent vertices of a polygon. Having a slanted or oblique direction.

'Concetto Spaziale' Lucio Fontana


'Orion' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero 'Orion' Millennium Park, Chicago

'Motu' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero 1977 'Motu', Grand Rapids, Michigan

'T8' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero 'T8', 1985, Western Gateway Center, John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Des Moines, Iowa

'Ave' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero


Actual lines – lines, which are physically, present in a design.

'Bornibus' Mark di_Suvero


'Are the Years What' Mark di Suvero


"Big Blue" by Nancy Cervenka


'Neruda's Gate' Mark di Suvero


"Slanted Block" by Richard Serran


Implied lines – lines that may not have been explicitly drawn, but that the composition of the work makes it appear that they are there.

Vassilakis Takis, Ohne Titel (Yellow Telesculpture)


Lucio Fontana


'Piatto concetto spaziale' Lucio Fontana


'Concetto spaziale' Lucio Fontana


'Concetto Spaziale' Lucio Fontana


Sight lines- the angles of visibility from the auditorium. An imagery line taken from any angle in the auditorium to determine unobstructed vision. Unobstructed line of vision. The sight line is the view the occupant has from the chair to the focal point of the presentation area of the auditorium.

Jeffrey Laudenslager - Hokusai


Sol Lewitt - Unknown


Mark DiSuvero - Oolompali


George Rickey - Two Lines Oblique


Sol Lewitt - Four-Sided Pyramid


Space – the unlimited expanse in which everything is located. An empty area. An area reserved for some particular purpose.

'Scarlatti' Mark Di Suvero


Sol Lewitt - Modular Cube


Kati Casida - Kata Kyoto


Mary Oros - Black in Blue


Sol Lewitt - Unknown


Presence in space – a state of fact of existing, occurring, or being present in a place.

'Arikidea' Mark di Suvero
Arikidea by Mark di Suvero

Henk Hofstra - Eggcident


Ball and Nogues - Maximilian's Schell


Jacqueline Kyoda - Outdoor Box


Jacqueline Kyoda - Popcorn Chair


Absence in space-the state, occasion or period of being away from a place.

Isamu Noguchi - Black Sun


Dennis Oppenhiem - Chair Pool


Dennis Oppenhiem - Bat Flying Out of a Cat's Ear


John Duff - Equilateral Torus II


Unknown Artist/Title


Opened and closed space – a space of infinite volume and with or without any boundary.

'Beethoven's Quartet' Mark Di Suvero
A Mark Di Suvero piece, "Beethoven's Quartet"

The boxers by Keith Haring


'Destino' Mark Di Suvero


Serial Project 1 by Sol LeWitt


"Marfa Texas" by Donald Judd


Kinetic form- term used to describe a situation related to or produced by motion, the goal of kinetic form is to express perpetual motion through its immovable structure. Energy contained in a moving mass or in a moving particle.

'Flamingo' Mark di Suvero


'Pax Jerusalemme' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero

'Lau Tzu' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero's "Lau Tzu"

'Aurora' Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero's Aurora

The Gates (Central Park) by Christo and Jeanne-Claude


Proximity – the property of being close together. The region close around a person or thing. A gestalt principle of organization holding that objects or events that are near to one another are perceived as belonging together as a unit. Closeness, the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship.

'Johnny Appleseed' Mark di Suvero


"Green" by Nathan Sawaya


"Two Loves" by Dick Kappel


"Behold" Ron Isaacs


"Man Levitates" by Luh Mas Sri Pertamiari


Closure – closing: approaching destination. A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body. A gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric.

Jesus Rafael Soto, Nylon Cube


"Split X" by Lynn Chadwick


"Ring Neste" by Mark Di Suvero


"Praise of the Horizon" by Eduardo Chillida


Jason DeCaires Taylor


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