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"Shapes and Forms" Humanities

Shapes refers to two-dimensional areas defined by elements of art. There are two classes of shapes: geometric and organic. Geometric shapes have straight edges and include circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. Organic shapes are free-form and irregular, like clouds or pebbles. Form applies to the overall three-dimensional design of a work of art and can be closed, containing the viewer's eyes within the frame, or open, implying the scene continues outside the frame. Architecture also uses shapes like circles, triangles, and squares in its designs. Forms can be regular with consistent symmetrical parts or irregular with unrelated asymmetrical elements.

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"Shapes and Forms" Humanities

Shapes refers to two-dimensional areas defined by elements of art. There are two classes of shapes: geometric and organic. Geometric shapes have straight edges and include circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. Organic shapes are free-form and irregular, like clouds or pebbles. Form applies to the overall three-dimensional design of a work of art and can be closed, containing the viewer's eyes within the frame, or open, implying the scene continues outside the frame. Architecture also uses shapes like circles, triangles, and squares in its designs. Forms can be regular with consistent symmetrical parts or irregular with unrelated asymmetrical elements.

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Shap es & Form s

Shapes

Shapes
is an element of art that refers to an area clearly set off by one or more of the other element of art.

Shapes

Shapes
are limited to two dimensions:

Length Width

Shapes

Two Classes of Shapes Geometric shapes Organic shapes

Shapes

Geometric Shapes look as though they were made by a ruler or drawing tool.

Shapes

Geometric Shapes examples:


rectangle circle

square
Triangle Oval

Shapes

Organic Shapes is called free form. Shapes are not regular by even.

Shapes

Organic Shapes Shapes

are not regular by even. Their outline may be curved/angular, or they may be a

Shapes

Organic Shapes examples:


Clouds

Pebble s

Forms

Form
applies to the over all design of a work of art.

Forms

Closed form
is when the elements of a painting are contained with in the frame and lead the eyes back into the picture.

Forms

Closed form
Fra Angelico's painting can also serve as an example of closed form. The columns and the figures create vertical movement while the step and the general trend of the arch create horizontal

Forms

Open Form
if facts of figures are to cut of by frame and we feel that the action extends out of the picture.

Forms

Open Form
Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix. The diagonals created by the flow of the figures helps to break the painting out of its frame. It is easy to imagine the rest of the scene continuing on outside our view.

Architecture

Architecture
is also concerned with shapes of planes, openings, and silhouettes of building forms.

Architecture

Architecture
a. circle b. triangle c. squares

Architecture

Circle
a series of points arranged equally and balanced about a point.

Architecture

Circle

Concentric circles in the ceiling of the San Diego Convention Center atrium.

Architecture

Triangle
a plane figure that are bounded by 3 sides and having 3 angles.

Architecture

Triangle

Architecture

Square

a plane figure that has 4 equal sides and 4 right angles.

Architecture

Square

Cubism Square Architecture Of Building

Forms

Regular Forms
are those parts are related to one another in a consistent orderly manner. They are generally stable and symmetrical in about

Forms

Regular Forms solids Platonic

Forms

Irregular Forms
are those whose parts are dissimilar and unrelated to one another. They are generally asymmetrical and dynamic.

Forms

Irregular Forms
an exploration of the interactions and energy created by pushing three large irregular forms very close together.

Forms

Centralized Forms
consist of a number of secondary forms produce a dominant, central, and parent form.

Forms

Linear Forms
are arranged sequently in a row or along a line.

Forms

Linear Forms

Forms

Radial Forms
are compositions of linear form that extent outward central form in a radial manner.

Forms

Radial Forms

Forms

Grid Forms

are modular forms whose relationships are regulated by dimensional parallel lines.

Forms

Grid Forms

Shap es & Form s

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