SPACE

ARTWORKS THAT SHOW SPACE

SPACE IN ART EXAMPLES: VAST/OPEN SPACE

 aspar 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

 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

ARTWORKS WITH FLAT/S HALLOW 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

ARTWORKS 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 (affiliate link)

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
 This post has a lot of good examples.

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
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE IN ART

 Henry Moore, Recumbent Figure, 1938

 Eadward Muybridge, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, 1878
 Alberto Giacometti, The Cage, 1930-31
 Keith Haring, Pop Shop IV (Man with Hole), 1989
 Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Creation of Man, 1508-12
 Andy Goldsworthy, Circles, Varied
 Kenneth Snelson, Needle Tower, 1968
 Sesshū Tōyō, Haboku-Sansui, 1495
 Richard Serra, Sequence, 2006
 Auguste Rodin, The Cathedral, 1908