Shape

1. Shape Shape pertains to the use of areas in two dimensional space that can be defined by edges, setting one flat specific space apart from another. Shapes can be geometric (e.g.: square, circle, triangle, hexagon, etc.) or organic (such as the shape of a puddle, blob, leaf, boomerang, etc.) in nature. Shapes are defined by other elements of art: Space, Line, Texture, Value, Color, Form.

2. Organic Shapes

3. Geometric Shapes

4. Suprematist Composition Kazimir Malevich 1914 Oil on Canvas

5. Totem Alexander Calder Painted Metal

6. The Plum Garden in Kameido Hiroshige Utagawa Print

7. The Battle of Trafalgar Joseph Mallord William Turner 1806

8. San Giorgio Maggiore from the Dogana Joseph Mallord William Turner 1819

9. The Battle of Issus Alexander the Great Mosaic c. 100 B.C. Tile Mosaic

10. Detail of The Battle of Issus Alexander the Great Mosaic c. 100 B.C. Tile Mosaic

11. Three Musicians Pablo Picasso 1921 Oil on canvas

12. Red Room Henri Matisse 1908 Oil on canvas

13. Eagle Alexander Calder 1971 Sculpture

14. North Rose, Notre Dame Cathedral 1250 Stained Glass

17. Activities: 1. From six different colored sheets of paper, cut six organic shapes. From the same sheets of paper, cut six geometric shapes. Arrange all the organic shapes on the lower half of a colored piece of paper and arrange the geometric shapes on the upper half. Glue the pieces down. 6. Draw a figure shape in a series of movements on different colored papers. Cut them out, then overlap each change of pose, outlining each shape with black marker. 7. Draw the exterior of a house with many geometric shapes and a few organic shapes. 10. Cut out pictures from magazines of objects in nature that have organic shapes. Cut out pictures from magazines of manmade objects that have geometric shapes. Glue them down on paper and compare the shapes.