STUDY: Shape

GOAL: Learn the difference between geometric and organic shapes.  Think about what each shape has to say.  Use them in a composition to abstractly represent a place.

The student who created the image below used the beach as her inspiration.

Helena, age 10

Helena, age 10

VOCABULARY 

Shape:  a flat area defined by its edges or an outline

Geometric: shapes that have names and can be constructed with a compass and/or ruler

Organic: shapes found in nature, non regular

Composition: the way in which something is put together or arranged

Read more about our Curriculum below.

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EXPLORE: Renaissance

This student is creating an image for the EXPLORE: Renaissance lesson of our Curriculum.  At this point in the Curriculum, our students have learned many important fundamental skills and are able to create work in a similar manner to those done by the Masters during the Renaissance period.  

During this period, artists used perspective to create the illusion of distance and composed their paintings in such a way to guide the viewer's eye around the image slowly and evenly.

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VOCABULARY: 

Anatomy: a study of the structure or internal workings of the human body

Proportion: the relationship of one thing to another in terms of size

Perspective: the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point

Humanism: a Renaissance movement that revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought