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July 13, 2015 Leave a Comment

Artworks that Show Space

Inside: This is the ultimate list of good space in art examples! The list includes perspective, positive and negative space in art, foreshortening, and much more!

It’s Elements and Principles of Art time again! I’ve been working my way through all of the elements and principles of art in order to give you a one-stop resource to find great example artworks for each element and principle. So far, I’ve completed Line, Color, Shape, Balance, and Emphasis.

Today, we tackle Space. First, check out this other post I wrote about space last year. Then, check out the below list.

I will add to this list when I find more, so this is a good one to pin or bookmark! The horizontal picture collages do not have all the pictures from the categories.

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Examples of Space in Art

The Art Curator for Kids -Artworks that Show Space - Vast Space and Overlapping

Space in Art Examples: Vast/Open Space

  • Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea, 1809
  • Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948
  • Maruyama Okyo, Geese Over a Beach, 18th century
  • Sanford R. Gifford, Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore, 1871

Artworks that Show Space using Overlapping

  • John Sloan, South Beach Bathers, 1907-08
  • Horace Pippin, Man on a Bench, 1946
  • Trigo Piula, Ta Tele Gabon, 1988
  • Jacob Lawrence, The Library, 1960

The Art Curator for Kids -Artworks that Show Space - Relative Size and Vertical Position on the Picture PlaceSpace in Art Examples: Relative Size

  • John Sloan, South Beach Bathers, 1907-08
  • Ben Shahn, Italian Landscape, 1943-1944
  • Abraham Bloemaert, Shepherd Boy Pointing at Tobias and the Angel, c. 1625-1630
  • Pierre Adolphe Valette, Albert Square, Manchester, 1910

Artworks that Show Space using Vertical Position on the Picture Plane

  • John Sloan, South Beach Bathers, 1907-08
  • Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948
  • Basawan and Chatar Muni, Akbar and the Elephant Hawai, ca. 1590
  • Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #12, 1962
  • Jacob Lawrence, The Library, 1960

The Art Curator for Kids -Artworks that Show Space - Flat Space and ForeshorteningArtworks with Flat/Shallow Space

  • Byzantine, Justinian and his Attendants, Basilica di San Vitale, 547 C.E
  • Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel Frescoes, ca. 1305
  • Henri Matisse, Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908
  • Juan Gris, Violin and Playing Cards, 1913

Artworks with Foreshortening

  • Caravaggio, Conversion on the Way to Damascus, 1601
  • Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, c. 1501
  • James Montgomery Flagg, I want you for U.S. Army, c.1917

The Art Curator for Kids -Artworks that Show Space - Linear PerspectiveArtworks with Linear Perspective

  • Masaccio, Trinity, 1427-28
  • Raphael, School of Athens, 1510
  • Meindert Hobbema, The Avenue at Middelharnis, 1689
  • Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Scrapers, 1875
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, 1498
  • Pietro Perugino, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, 1481–1482
  • Dorothea Lange, The Road West, 1938
  • Salvador Dali, The Disintegration of The Persistence of Memory, 1952-54
  • Camille Pissarro, Place du Théâtre Français, Paris: Rain, 1898
  • Charles Sheeler, City Interior, 1936
  • Piero della Francesca, Ideal City, c. 1470
  • Filippo Brunelleschi, Perspective drawing for Church of Santo Spirito in Florence, c. 1428
  • Edith Hayllar, A Summer Shower, 1883
  • Vincent van Gogh, A Corridor in the Asylum, 1889
  • Anselm Kiefer, To the Unknown Painter, 1983

Artworks with Multipoint (2+) Perspective

  • Canaletto, Santa Maria Zobenigo, c.1765
  • Gustave Caillebotte, Paris: A Rainy Day, 1877
  • George Tooker, The Subway, 1950
  • Jan Vredeman de Vries, Studies in Perspective, c. 1604

The Art Curator for Kids -Artworks that Show Space - Aerial Perspective and Isometric Projection

Space in Art Examples: Atmospheric/Aerial Perspective

  • Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-19
  • Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Ruins, Pastoral Figures, and Trees, c. 1650
  • Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise, Yosemite Valley, c. 1870
  • Sanford R. Gifford, October in the Catskills, 1880
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565
  • Pierre Adolphe Valette, Albert Square, Manchester, 1910

Space in Art Examples: Isometric Projection/Perspective

  • Chinese, Portraits of the Yongzheng Emperor Enjoying Himself during the 8th lunar month, Yongzheng period, 1723—35
  • Yi Eungnok, Scholar’s accoutrements (chaekgeori), c. 1860-1874
  • David Hockney, Self-Portrait With Blue Guitar, 1977

Space in Art Examples: Amplified/Exaggerated Perspective

  • Alexander Rodchenko, At the Telephone, 1928
  • Salvador Dalí, Christ of Saint John of the Cross, 1951
  • Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, 1914

The Art Curator for Kids - Space in Art Examples - Positive and Negative SpacePositive and Negative Space in Art

  • Henry Moore, Recumbent Figure, 1938
  • Eadweard Muybridge, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, 1878
  • Alberto Giacometti, The Cage, 1930-31
  • Keith Haring, Pop Shop IV (Man with Hole), 1989
  • Andy Goldsworthy, Circles, Varied
  • Kenneth Snelson, Needle Tower, 1968
  • Sesshū Tōyō, Haboku-Sansui, 1495
  • Richard Serra, Sequence, 2006
  • Auguste Rodin, The Cathedral, 1908

Remember I will add to this, so don’t forget to pin this post! 🙂

Do you have a great example to teach space? Share it with me in the comments, and I will add it to the list!

There you have it! The best space in art examples for your elements and principles of art lessons. Want more elements and principles of art teacher resources? Check out the below posts.

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December 19, 2014 7 Comments

25 Favorite Madonna and Childs in Art History

the Art Curator for Kids - 25 Favorite Madonna and Childs from Art History

the Art Curator for Kids - 25 Favorite Madonna and Childs from Art History

Of all the subjects in all of art history, I would place money on Madonna and Child being the most represented subject in art. Just type “Madonna and Child” into a Google image search, and you will find an endless list of beautiful artworks.  Today, I was going to do a 5 favorite Madonna and Child paintings post, but I absolutely couldn’t pick 5. I moved it to 10, then 12, then 20, and then I ended up at 25. I just found a 26th, and I can’t leave it out, so technically there are 26 in this list now.  I pretty much spent all day looking at Madonnas.

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Egon Schiele, Mother and Child (Madonna), 1908
Egon Schiele, Mother and Child (Madonna), 1908

Giotto, Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1. Nativity, Birth of Jesus, 1304-06
Giotto, Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1. Nativity, Birth of Jesus, 1304-06

German, Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus, 1450s
German, Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus, 1450s

Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child, c. 1465
Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child, c. 1465

Felice Torelli, Virgin and Child with Angels and Saints, circa 1700
Felice Torelli, Virgin and Child with Angels and Saints, circa 1700

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and Saint Agnes, 1597-1599
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and Saint Agnes, 1597-1599

Dieric Bouts, Virgin and Child, ca. 1455–60, Oil on wood
Dieric Bouts, Virgin and Child, ca. 1455–60, Oil on wood

Black Madonna of Częstochowa
Black Madonna of Częstochowa

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, Virgin and Child, ca. 1670–72
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, Virgin and Child, ca. 1670–72

Woonbo Kim Ki-chang, The Birth of Jesus Christ, 1952-53
Woonbo Kim Ki-chang, The Birth of Jesus Christ, 1952-53

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Virgin of the Lilies (La Vierge au lys), 1899
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Virgin of the Lilies (La Vierge au lys), 1899

the Art Curator for Kids - 5 Favorite Madonnas in Art - Paul Gauguin, la Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891, oil on canvas
Paul Gauguin, la Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891, oil on canvas

the Art Curator for Kids - 5 Favorite Madonnas in Art - Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck, c. 1535-1540
Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck, c. 1535-1540

the Art Curator for Kids - 5 Favorite Madonnas in Art - French, Virgin and Child in Majesty, ca. 1175–1200
French, Virgin and Child in Majesty, ca. 1175–1200

the Art Curator for Kids - 5 Favorite Madonnas in Art - Ethiopia, Double Diptych Icon Pendant, early 18th century, wood, tempera pigment, string
Ethiopia, Double Diptych Icon Pendant, early 18th century

the Art Curator for Kids - 5 Favorite Madonnas in Art - Edvard Munch, Madonna, 1895–1902, Color Lithograph
Edvard Munch, Madonna, 1895–1902, Color Lithograph

Simone Martini, Maestà (detail), 1315
Simone Martini, Maestà (detail), 1315

Sandro Botticelli, The Virgin and Child (The Madonna of the Book), 1480
Sandro Botticelli, The Virgin and Child (The Madonna of the Book), 1480

Salvador Dalí, The Madonna of Port Lligat, 1949
Salvador Dalí, The Madonna of Port Lligat, 1949

Raphael, The Small Cowper Madonna, circa 1505, oil on panel
Raphael, The Small Cowper Madonna, circa 1505, oil on panel

Peruvian, Virgin of the Rosary of Guápulo, ca. 1680, Oil on canvas
Peruvian, Virgin of the Rosary of Guápulo, ca. 1680, Oil on canvas

Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Madonna and Child, 1370s, Tempera on wood, gold ground
Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Madonna and Child, 1370s

Modern Madonna and Child, December 23, 1922, J.C. Leyendecker
Modern Madonna and Child, December 23, 1922, J.C. Leyendecker

John II Comnenus, Byzantine emperor, and his wife, Irene, with Madonna and child. Mosaic in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, ca. 1118
John II Comnenus, Byzantine emperor, and his wife, Irene, with Madonna and child. Mosaic in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, ca. 1118

Jean Fouquet, Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, 1452, oil on panel
Jean Fouquet, Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, 1452, oil on panel

Icon of the Virgin Mary, 16th century. St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai
Icon of the Virgin Mary, 16th century. St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai

I’ll probably use these in future lessons on the blog. Let me know which one is your favorite so I know which one to do first. 🙂

I’m taking a 2 week blogging break. I’ll see in you 2015! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year! 🙂

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