Unit 8 Space

What impressed me most in this chapter is Spencer Tunick’s Consumed 2. By changing the relationship between space and the human body, the artist shows that the expression of the human body is not limited to the deep portrayal of a single human detail. In the classical genre of visual art, in addition to still life and landscape, the “human body and space” is one of the mainstream topics. There is a special tension between figure and space, which can be observed in many portraits and figurative works. In the relationship between the human body and space, the human body has a central position. Since the time of Adam and Eve, the study of the human body has always occupied an important place in the history of art and is still the focus of many artists’ attention. In addition to presenting the human body as a precise anatomical structure, artists have also used a variety of techniques to represent it in their works of art. They transform the human body into a specific semantic meaning or reduce it to its essence, giving it a specific symbolic meaning. An important element in the representation of the human body is its pose, in which the figure stands, lies or sits. The expression of the human pose involves the use of space. The space in the painting, whether it may be expressed directly or implied from the side, or even sometimes ignored altogether, is present in a specific way.

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  1. Good comment on Spencer Tunick’s work. You miss the main point of the essay which is how the relationship of bodies to spaces contributes to the meanings of a work. The type of space that is used can profoundly change how an image is read. So a confined space, scale, movement through space, can influence how the work is received. And whether that reception is to feel a little destabilized or to feel comforted- a variety of meaning are made.

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