Space

Space is an area that an artist provides for a particular purpose.  Space includes the background, foreground and middle ground. Space refers to the distances or areas around, between and within things. When a small amount of space is used between two people in a drawing, it can mean affection while a larger space between them can mean just friendship. Space can be thought of as distance or closeness. The principle of space in this picture is being used to show closeness or affection. In the two different pictures, the background is different, making one of the pictures a little more obvious than the other. When you first glance at these two pictures, you see what looks like a wooden candle holder. The one with the white background,(black faces), stands out first. I think that space and contrast are working together in these pictures. This piece was painted by John Smithson in 2007 and he wanted to demonstrate negative and positive space.