Shape in Art By James Drawing I think

Shape in Art By James

Drawing • I think using shapes makes it easier to draw animals, people and other objects. • You can also make 3 D objects by using different shades.

Drawing

Painting These are some people who use shapes in their paintings. • Henri Matisse, The Snail, 1953. • Okun Akpan Abuje, Nigerian Funerary shrine cloth, late 1970 s. • MC Escher, Cycle, 1938. • Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians, 1921. • Grant Wood, Spring Turning, 1936. • Edward Steichen, The Sunflower, c. 1920

Painting

Sculpture, an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects. The designs may be embodied in freestanding objects, in reliefs on surfaces, or in environments ranging from tableaux to contexts that envelop

Printing • A print is a work of graphic art which has been conceived by the artist to be realised as an original work of art, rather than a copy of a work in another medium. • Prints are produced by drawing or carving an image onto a hard surface (known as a matrix) such as a wood block or metal

Printing • You can also use objects to print patterns onto paper, canvass or fabric

Architecture This shapes book with a difference features 12 buildings from around the world. Each spread is devoted to one shape - both twoand three-dimensional shapes eg circle, square, rectangle, cube, pyramid and cylinder. Each building is illustrated in full colour with the geometric shape reproduced again on the page

Nature Andy Goldsworthy OBE is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland

Designers In design shapes have two dimensions and are measured by their height and width. Shapes are defined by boundaries such as with lines or colour and can also be created with negative space. Shapes are used to add interest and substance to a piece of graphic work. . There are two types of shapes: geometric and organic