Space and Form

As an element of art, space refers to distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece. Space can be positive or negative, open or closed, shallow or deep and can have a 3 dimensional or two dimensional aspect to it. Sometimes space isn't actually within a piece, but the illusion of it is.  

In the picture above space isn't in the picture but the illusion of it is, and it feels as though you are going through a tunnel 

In the paintings by Max Beckmann, the relative sizes of the various elements give understanding to the space that is suggested.

Space in art can have many aspects to it that will affect the way you feel if you were to see a certain piece. Some of these feelings you may feel are sad, lonely, intiment, distant, free, lost, ect. 

This peice shows size variation. Because the diminishing size of distant objects is a basic characteristic of human vision, any systematic variation in size will increase the illusion of space. This effect is demonstrated most clearly when the distance is great.

value

People always seem to think that the main component of art is color but really it is not. The main component of art is value, it allows you to be able to tell when you  look at a shape or object if that object is rough you smooth, shiny or clean, dull or sharp. Colour on the other hand does not allow you to see things like this. If we didn't have value everything would look plain and flat. Value is the relative degree of lightness or darkness of a particular color.


Value isn't only a component in art, it is a component in the 
real world as well if we didn't have it there would be no texture to what we look at.