1. Shape and Form
MC Escher
Art 1&2

2. Form Shape 2 Dimensional area with a recognizable boundary
3 Dimensional shape

3. Figure Ground Figure is the object Ground is the background
Sometimes it is hard to distinguish

4. Positive and Negative Shape
Positive Shape
Term used to describe the figure or subject
Term used to describe the background
Negative Shape

5. Organic and Geometric Shapes

6. Open and Closed Shapes
Open Shapes have space around and between them and share some importance with the background
Closed shapes and forms seem solid and heavy

7. How is Shape Used Here? Organic or Geometric? Open or Closed?
The Old Plum, by Kano Sansetsu
Organic or Geometric?
Open or Closed?
What emotions do the shapes suggest?

8. Shape Constancy
The tendency to see a shape as unchanging regardless of the angle at which you see it.

9. How is Shape Used Here?
Does the house in this painting seem heavy and closed, or light and open?
Why do you think so?
What shapes have changed due to their angle?
House by the Railroad, by Edward Hopper

10. Artists Who Utilize Shape
M.C. Escher
Accomplished printmaker
Got interested in art in high school
Went to Graphic Arts College

11. M.C. Escher He is popular for: Circle Limit IV, 1960 Optical Illusions
Mathematics

12. M.C. Escher
Inspiration
Nature
Reality

13. M. C. Escher
Inspiration
Dream Worlds
Impossible Perspective

14. M.C. Escher
Why do you think many people see a connection between his work and mathematics?

15. M.C. Escher
How does this work force the viewer to notice the interaction of figure and ground?
What possible meaning does it give this work?

16. Sketchbook Activity Choose an arrangement of 2-3 objects
Draw the outline of the objects enlarged
Fill in the negative shapes with differing patters.