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SHAPE
Wassily Kandinsky, Blau in Violet
Shapes are defined by:
-A perceived area created by an enclosing line (outline) or a
-color/value change describing an edge
Elizabeth Murray, Do the Dance
Cezanne, Apples
Overlapping shapes gives a sense of depth
William Bailey, Mercantiler’s shelf
Malevich, Composition
Ellsworth Kelly, Three Shaped Panels
In three-dimensional work, the word to describe shapes is mass or volume
How do changes in value or shading make this seem three-dimensional?
• Circle (flat) vs. sphere (gradation)
Changes in value, shading can create the illusion of mass or volume in two-dimensional work
GEOMETRIC SHAPES
Straight lines
Hard Edges
Mathematical angles
FRANK STELLA
Al Held,
Mao
Mathematical Curves
Curves that define shapes we know from geometry, like circles, ovals or ellipses
Sharp Angles
Sol Lewitt, Double Stars
Karl Benjamin, Untitled
Rectilinear Shapes
Geometric shapes that contain elements of rectangles—90 degree angles, contrast of length
and width
Theo Van Doesburg
Ad Reinhardt, Red
Abstraction
The lines in rectilinear shapes often
refer to the edges of the composition:
parallel, perpindicular, or diagonal.
Rectilinear shapes have 90 degree
angles.
CURVILINEAR
SHAPES:
rounded
shapes
Franz Ackermann,
Mental Map
Organic Shapes: irregular edges, often
refer to nature, leaves, plants,
landscape elements
Helen Frankenthaler
Arthur Dove, Summer
Irregular edges
Georgia O’Keeffe
Ellsworth Kelly
Elizabeth Murray
Untitled
Organic shapes
start to suggest
forms found in
nature
Art Nouveau: a
decorative style
characterized by
organic, nature-based
shapes. Seeking to
unify nature and
design.
Also highly graphic
and pattern-based.
Aubrey Beardsley
Biomorphic
Shapes
Miro, Portrait of
the MIstress
Organic shapes that
reference the human form
Miro, Constellation
What types of shapes are
exibited here?
Representational
Shapes: refer
directly to
recognizable objects
Hal Reddicliffe, Projector
Ingres, the Grand Odalisque
Abstracted
Shapes
Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape
Based in visual reality, but
exaggerated or simplified to
suggest the source shape, not
mimic it.
Elizabeth Murray,
Perfectly Morning
Matisse, the Moroccans
My Egypt, Charles Demuth
Pure Forms: shapes like Triangles, squares, rectangles, circles. Recognizable shapes
with names that don’t refer to observation.
Non-Objective is another term used for shapes with NO reference to observation.