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Design I (shape)

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Tiling
Making a pattern by placing geometric shapes next to each other.
Tessellation
Net of congruent, regular polygons.
Pattern
Repetition of an element in a regular, anticipated sequence with symmetry.
Tessare
Small cubes of tiles or marble that are used to make a mosaic.
Motif
Designed unit that is repeated often enough in a composition that it becomes a significant or dominant feature.
Implied shape
Shape created or suggested by the principle of psychological closure, thus making the viewer see a shape when it does not actually exist.
Negative space
Unoccupied area of a composition.
Positive space
The creation and/or combination of elements produces an objective or non-objective figure or field against a ground.
Distortion
Departure from accepted ratio of proportions or accepted depiction of an object.
Proportion
Compares objects with each other in size, emphasis or quantity. Can be a ratio or just a relative value.
Hieractic scale
Making an object or person much larger in scale than other objects or people in the picture. Used in art history to depict saints or kings.
Shifting scale
Making an object or shape larger or smaller.
Scale
Ratio of the proportions and dimensions of a drawn object or scene to those of the original.
Size
Physical or relative dimensions of an object or shape.
Silhouette
Area bounded by the contours of an object that has used dramatic value contrast to emphasize it.
Ground
Unoccupied space in a picture; negative space.
Figure
Recognizable object that is being depicted. Positive space.
Plane
A continuous surface limited by edges.
Volume
Illusion of enclosed space surrounded by or implied by a shape or form, and the space immediately adjacent to it.
Mass
Apparent solidity of a shape, created by shading or overlapping.
Form
The apparent three-dimensionality of an artistic object. Or, the composition and structure of a work as a whole.
Amorphous shapes
Formless and indistinct shape without obvious edges (ex. clouds).
Biomorphic shapes
Shapes based on single-cell organisms, such as amoebas, found in nature.
Curvilinear shapes
Shapes based on organic shapes found in nature.
Rectilinear shapes
Subset of geometric shapes based on lines, usually parallel horizontally or vertically.
Geometric shapes
Simple, mechanical shapes based on mathematics (ex. triangles, rectangles, squares).
Shape
An enclosed area identifiable independent of the background, bounded by outline or a change in value or texture. Two-dimensional, it has length and width but no depth. Can exist on a plane other than the picture plane.
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