Element of Art: Space

HS I.C1b Identify and understand the elements of art, including line, shape, color, texture, form, space, and value, as the fundamentals of art in personal artwork.

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Elements of Art: Space

Multiple Choice

When you place one object in front of another it's called what?

• Overlapping

• Shading

• Shrinking

• Enlarging

Multiple Choice

The letter A is located in the _____.

• Foreground

• Background

• Middle Ground

Multiple Choice

How many vanishing points does this image have?

• one vanishing point

• two vanishing points

• three vanishing points

Overlapping is when shapes are in front of other shapes. If one shape overlaps another it communicates an illusion of depth.

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What is overlapping?

The area of the picture space nearest to the viewer, immediately behind the picture plane, is known as the foreground.

What is the foreground?

Middle ground is the space occurring between the foreground and background

What is the middle ground?

Background in art refers to the background space or setting that an image is placed within.

What is the background?

Multiple Choice

If the positive space is in black, what are we looking at?

• A vase.

• Two faces looking at one another.

Multiple Choice

If the positive space is in white, what are we looking at?

• A cityscape with a moon.

• A key.

Positive space is best described as the areas in a work of art that are the subjects, or areas of interest

​What is positive space?

Negative space is the empty space around and between an image's subject(s).

​What is negative space?