Shape Vocabulary Part 1

2. Form Forms in paintings and sculptures that emphasize openings.
4. An element of art. An enclosed space is defined by other art elements such as line, color, and texture.
6. Shape In pictures, these are the figures.
7. Form Forms in painting and sculpture with few or no openings or negative shapes.
9. In artwork, negative or background shapes appear underneath or surrounding a figure.
10. Shapes Free forms, or shapes and forms that represent living things having irregular edges, distinguished from the regular edges of geometric shapes.
11. An element of design that appears three-dimensional and encloses volume such as a cube, sphere, pyramid, or cylinder. A term may also refer to the characteristics of an artwork’s visual elements (lines, color, texture, etc.) distinguished from its subject matter.

1. A method of applying perspective to an object or figure so that it seems to recede in space by shortening the depth dimension, making the form appear three-dimensional.
3. Shapes in pictures make up the ground.
5. Shapes Mechanical, human-made shapes such as squares, triangles, circles, etc. Geometric shapes have regular edges of geometric shapes.
8. In artwork, a positive or main shape appears on top of background shapes.