3D Design Class: Line and Space

Definition

Straight Line- a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature; "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line"

Bernar Venet

Straight line

Curved Line- A line having no straight part; bend having no angular part.

Lankmark

Ilan Averbuch

Retired Thunderbird

Patrick Ray Day

Robert Long

Mark Di Suvero

Flamingo

Vertical line- A line perpendicular to the horizon.

Louis Bourgeois

Legs

Michael Lucero

Greenhouse

Mark Di Suvero

The Calling

Kenneth Snelson

4-Way Tower

James Gillespie

Sight Line

Horizontal line- Parallel to or in the plane of the horizon.

Mark Di Suvero

L'Allume

Mark Di Suvero

Old buddy

Mark Di Suvero

Ik ook

Anthony Caro

Chalk Line

Mark Di Suvero

Trusspiece

Diagonal line- Joining two nonadjacent vertices of a polygon. Joining two vertices of a polyhedron not in the same face.

Mark Di Suvero

The Calling

Mark Di Suvero

Are Years What?

Mark Di Suvero

Johnny Appleseed

Mark Di Suvero

Tyne Anew

Actual line- A linear or calligraphic mark. A boundary limit of spaces, objects, masses, colors, or tones.

Pyeon

Work2

Dan Zaretzky

Bull

Kenneth Snelson

Rainbow Arch

Vassilakis Takis

Signal

Implied line- A line created by movement or direction, suck as the established by a pointing finger, the direction of a glance, or body moving through space.

Kenneth Snelson

4-Way Tower

Kenneth Snelson

E.C. Column

Vassilakis Takis

Ohne Title

Chakaia Booker

Wrench2

Kenneth Snelson

Zig-Zag Tower

Sight line- A line of sight, especially one between a spectator and the spectacle in a theater or stadium.

Lynn Chadwick

399

George Rickey

Three Columns

Louise Bourgeois

Mamang

Claes Oldenburg

spring

James Gillespie

Sight Line

Space- Refers to distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece.

Andrea Zittel

A-Z Breeding Unit for averaging eight breeds

Mark Di Suvero

Snowplow

Micheal Rees

Putto 4 over 4

Gail Smpson and Aristotle Georgides

Trogan Piggy Bank

Sol LeWitt

Four-Sided Pyramid

Presence and Absence in space- This is being within a space or not there at all.

Mark Di Suvero

Schubert's Sonata

Henry Moore

Knife Edge Mirror

Henry Moore

Forma Squadrata

Keith Haring

The boxers

George Rickey

Conversation

Closed Space- The work is inclosed by a polygon.

Opened Space- The work is not inclosed by any polygon.

Sol LeWitt

Five Towers

Sol LeWitt

Serial Project

Sol LeWitt

Five Modular Structures

Sol LeWitt

49 Three-part variations on Three different Kinds of cubes

Sol LeWitt

One-Two-One with Two-Half-Off

Kinetic Form- A form in which involves motion.

Theo Jansen

Wind Powered Moster

Alexander Calder

Gallows and Lollipops

Anthony Howe

Rooster Rings

David C.Roy

Kinetic Sculpture

Moto Ohtake

Stellar Motion

Proximity- A nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, and relation.

Jesus-Rafael Soto

Two Volumes in the Virtual

Jesus-Rafael Soto

Movement

Jean Tinguely

Meta-Mecanique

Jean Tinguely

Fragment from Homage to New York

Jean Tinguely

Narva

Closure- An inclination to connect fragmentary information. Some of the shapes within this are clearly defined while others merge from the background.