A shape is an element of art Specifically it is an enclosed space the boundaries of which are defined by other elements of art Shape Types of Shape Geometric Shapes that have specific rules ID: 813074
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Shape, Form and Space
Slide2What is shape?
A
shape is an element of art. Specifically, it is an enclosed space, the boundaries of which are defined by other elements of art
Shape
Slide3Types of Shape
Geometric: Shapes that have specific rules
Organic: a shape that can have both curved and straight segments.
Slide4Form
What is it?
is an element of art. At its most basic, a form is a three-dimensional geometrical figure (i.e.: sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, etc.), as opposed to a shape, which is two-dimensional, or flat.
Slide5Types of Form
Geometric:
is a list of three-dimensional geometric shapes.Such as: cubes, spheres, cones, etc
Slide6Another type of Form
Free Form:
A form without specific rules. Three-dimensional enclosed space.
Slide7Space
Positive:
it is the space occupied by your subjectNegative: is the space that is not your subjectDo you see a vase ortwo faces?
Positive
space
Negative space
Slide8Silhouette
What is a silhouette?
The dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background, esp. in dim light.
Slide9Kara Walker
“One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’
and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.” —Kara Walker
Born 1969- still alive
Slide10Life
Who
is she? Kara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size black cut-paper
silhouettes
She was born in California. Moved to Georgia at age 13.
Slide11Her Art
What is it about?
Her compositions play off stereotypes to portray, often horrifically, life on the plantation, where masters and mistresses and slave men, women, and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation.She makes room-size cut-paper silhouettes depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and suppression
Slide12Her first full scale show was held by the Walker Art Center
At 27, she was the youngest to receive the John D & Cathy T MacArthur foundation’s “
Genius Grant”Over the past decade, she has gained national and international recognition
for her
art
Slide13Walker’s scenarios spoil conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective, and ongoing, psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery.
Slide14Over the past years she has used drawing, painting, colored-light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance, sadism, oppression and liberation.
Slide15Social Issues
What is it?
An issue that affects people and society as a whole. How it changed their lives and/or mental condition because of stress from the issueWhat are some social issues?
Slide16Project
We are going to use Kara Walker’s technique of paper-cut silhouette to depict a social issue you feel passionate about.
Slide17Steps
List two social issues that interest you
Find an image that helps get your image acrossPrint it off using the same format we used for last assignment. The image needs to be bigTape a black piece of paper under your printed image
Use an x-
acto
knife and cut away all negative space.
After all negative space has been cut out, remove the printed image
Use tissue paper to glue onto the opened areas to create a powerful message
Fill out evaluation and hand it
Slide18What you will be graded on