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2D ReviewBy Meghan Gallagher
VOCABULARY
An area within a composition that has
boundaries that separate it from what surrounds it,
making it distinct.
SHAPE
The shape or structure of an object.
FORM
The mass or bulk of a three-dimensional work.
VOLUME
The bulk of a three- dimensional work of art.
MASS
The true mass of an object, as defined in terms of volume and weight.
ACTUAL MASS
The apparent or suggested mass of objects represented in a work of art; a realistic
rendering of a heavy object in a painting would have
implied, rather than actual, mass.
IMPLIED MASS
Shapes found in geometry, such as triangles and
circles.
GEOMETRIC SHAPES
Geometric shapes formed by the intersection of
straight lines.
RECTILINEAR SHAPES
A twentieth-century style, developed by Picasso and
Braque, which emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas and is characterized by multiple
views of an object and the reduction of an image to its essential lines and shapes.
CUBISM
Geometric shapes formed by the intersection of
curving lines, or by lines circling back to join
themselves and compose closed geometric figures.
CURVILINEAR SHAPES
Shapes derived from those of living things found in
nature.
ORGANIC SHAPES
Referring to works of art that have no reference to
reality.
ABSTRACT
Art that has no reference to visible reality.
NONOBJECTIVE
Another term for nonobjective.
NONREPRESENTATIONAL
The shapes in a composition.
POSITIVE SHAPES
That which remains in the composition around or
beyond the positive shapes.
NEGATIVE SHAPES
The relationship between the shapes or figures and
the other parts of the composition.
FIGURE AND GROUND
RELATIONSHIP
The shifting of viewer perceptions such that what, at one moment, appears to
be the figure in a composition becomes the ground, and vice versa.
FIGURE-GROUND REVERSAL
If a figure is made from two or more geometric figures
COMPOSITE SHAPE
Several possible meanings or interpretations.
AMBIGUITY
very cold and impersonal; totally neat and orderly;
unexciting and unimaginative
ANTISEPTIC
Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; easy.
FACILE
Able to perceive or feel things
SENTIENT
A preference or special liking for something
PREDILECTION
Names of the Precisionist Painters
-Charles Sheeler-Donald Sultan-M.C. Escher-Stacy Seiler
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Be able to cite examples of different types of shapes.
Be able to draw examples of different types of shapes.
What type of shape?
Negative Shape
What type of shape?
Geometric Shape
What type of shape?
Rectilinear Shape
What type of shape?
Curvilinear Shape
What type of shape?
Organic Shape
What type of shape?
Positive Shape
What type of shape?
Composite Shape
Figure and Ground
RelationshipsThe relationship between the
shapes or figures and the other parts of the
composition.
What artist from our discussion
really explored the manipulation of
Figure and Ground Relationships?
M.C. Escher
What types of shapes are most prominently in the works of Donald Sultan
and Stacy Seiler?
Negative Shapes
Compose these types of
questions about each Artist and
Vocabulary?
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