Shape: When a line crosses itself or intersects with other lines to enclose a space, it creates a shape. Shape is two-dimensional and has height and width, but no depth.
Categories of Shapes:
Geometric Shapes - Circles, Squares, rectangles, and triangles. We see them in architecture and manufactured items.
Organic Shapes - Leaves, seashells, and flowers are organic shapes. We see them in nature and they have free flowing, informal and irregular characteristics.
Positive Shapes - In a drawing or painting, positive shapes are the solid forms (positive space) in a design such as a bowl of fruit. In a sculpture, positive shapes are solid areas of the sculpture that remain after removing portions of the sculpture.
Negative Shapes - In a drawing or painting, the space around the positive shape is negative space. Negative space can form a shape when it meets a positive shape. Negative space can include the sky or spaces between objects. In sculpture, the negative space is the portion that is removed from a sculpture. The negative space can become a shape when it meets the positive form of the sculpture.
Static Shapes - Shapes that appear stable and resting.
Dynamic Shapes - Shapes that appear to be moving and active.
In YouTube, search: “elements of design shape”
Preview 3 videos summarizing line as an element of art.
COPY THE FOLLOWING INTO A BLOG POST TITLED “SHAPE’ AND COMPLETE THE QUESTIONS
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Choose what you feel is the highest quality video teaching about shape and form
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List three things you learned about how shape and form function in a piece of art:
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Insert a photo, either one of yours, or one you selected on the day one assignment, and
a) identify two types of shape or form in the photo
b) analyze the impact of the shapes or forms- what feeling / mood / effect do they give?
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