2d review

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?