Is the space shallow or deep? How is this accomplished? Does color play a part? Shape? Scale? Perspective?
The Seed of the Areoi / Paul Gauguin / 1892
;Deep. This is because of contrasting values and there are mountain on the background.
Still Life with Apples / Paul Cezanne / 1895-98
;Shallow, using the two point perspective with triads color.
Woman with Pears / Pablo Picasso / 1909
; Shallow, divided the woman in triangular shape and put shadow in each figure.
and the table at the back show the space between woman and table.
Great Metaphysical Interior / Giorgio de Chirico / 1917
;shallow, three point perspectives with using the shadow and triads color.
Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure) / Giorgio de Chico / 1914
;Deep, three point perspective and shadow show the space.
Ex Act / John Covert / 1919
;Shallow, using plywood and board to show the space.
Woman, Old man, and Flower / Max Ernst / 1923-24
;Deep, the ocean and mountain back in the painting show the depth of the space.
Christina’s World / Andrew Wyeth / 1948
;Deep. the trees and the horizontal line on the background show the space.
Also, the different scale of woman and the trees show the distance.
Grandcamp, Evening / Georges-Pierre Seurat / 1885
;Deep, It’s blurred on the background( boat and other small buildings), otherwise the
closer things are clear.
The Flase Mirror / Rene Magritte / 1928
;Deep/ shadow of the eye. Also the sky in the eye makes people to imagine
that the pupil is empty.
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