Chiharu Shiota’s The Key in the Hand installation was meticulously crafted in the pavilion, and its spatial structures influenced the final outlook of the whole piece. In installations real space is of the utmost importance as it often becomes actively engaged in the work, as in the example from the 2015 Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE IN ART EXAMPLES FULL
Perhaps the most notable example of the use of negative and positive space is Henry Moore’s sculpture that relies on the interplay between negative and positive areas between full forms and their absence. Negative or positive space, as mentioned above, is not something that is only applied and used in certain artworks but is a more general differentiation that is applicable to painting, sculpture, installation and other art forms. Negative, positive, implied or real, all these attributes apply to space and its representation and use in arts. In what follows, we track some of the changes in its depiction, and give a few examples to stimulate further thinking about spatial relations in art.Īnish Kapoor- Leviathan, 2011. Sometimes, the needs coming from the outside of the artistic world influenced the way space was understood and depicted. Space is not something that was always represented with the pure artistic ideas behind it. Such distinction is not something typical for this period in art history, but is nonetheless taken to the fore, as other spatial differentiation achieved through perspective and depth were not applicable anymore.Įxamining space in art must always take into account the complex social and cultural standings of a given time. While talking about the definition of space in art, positive stands in this equation for the place occupied by form, while negative is what remains between and around the form’s shapes. As artistic styles developed and avant-garde movements took over the art world by storm, space in art started to dissolve and forms that filled artworks were defined along a much simpler differentiation between positive and negative space. However, even the metaphysical one relied heavily on our perception and imagination, and was made similar to the palpable reality. Encyclopedia Britannica defines space as “a boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction.” Position and even direction in art may have some currency in previous ages when art had its strictly defined purpose of representing the living or metaphysical world. The definition of space gives us little to hold onto apropos its characteristics besides that it exists only in relation to something, or someone.
What is space? With this question can start almost any consideration of space in art.
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