12a spatial indicators

Introduction to Space

Romare Bearden, Mother and Child, 1972, Agnolo Bronzino, A Young Woman and Her Little Boy, 1540

Overlapping

Jose Guadalupe Posada, Ballad: Emiliano Zapata, 1910-1912

Robert Rauschenberg,

Untitled (2 of 2), 1962

Diminishing Size

Jack Balas, Slip, 2006

Stacking

(Things that are higher on the page are perceived to be

in the back.)

Albrecht Pfister illustration from the

second edition of Der Ackerman aus Boehmen

1463

Unknown artist from the Ming DynastyLady of the Highest Primordial and the Empress of

Earth c. I600

Paul Cezanne, Rocks Near Estaque, 1879-1882

High Contrast in Front, Low Contrast in Back(Atmospheric Perspective)

Kaye Donachie, Can’t Find Nothing I Can Put My Heart and Soul Into, 2004

Philip Guston Dial

1956

Warm colors

in front/cool

colorsin back

Edward Hopper, Lighthouse Hill, 1927

Modeling

Herbert Bayer, a poster to encourage egg production, c. 1943

David HockneyA Bigger Splash

1967

Diagonals and

Converging Diagonals

Piet Zwart, pages from the NKF cableworks catalog, 1928