Shapes
Artists use shapes to make art. Look at the shape of animals and leaves. The
shape of a living thing is a free-form shape. It does not have a specific name so
they are called free-form shapes. Geometric Shapes are mathematical shapes.
Geometric shapes have names. Circles, Triangles, Squares and Rectangles are
geometric shapes.
Artists glue paper shapes to make art. Art made up of pieces of paper or
fabric is called a collage. Overlapping occurs when one object or shape
covers part of a second object or shape.
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Claes Oldenburg Biography
American artist Claes Oldenburg (born 1929) created works of art which
were a wonderful blend of reality and fantasy. Oldenburg's artistic success
was due in part to his irreverent humor and incisive social commentary.
He took objects from the everyday world such as ice cream cones,
typewriters, lipstick, a flashlight; lifted them out of their usual context;
and forced viewers to reassess their preconceptions about the objects.
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