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  2. Shape and form (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    In the visual arts, shape is a flat, enclosed area of an artwork created through lines, textures, or colours, or an area enclosed by other shapes, such as triangles, circles, and squares. [1] Likewise, a form can refer to a three-dimensional composition or object within a three-dimensional composition.

  3. Fourth dimension in art - Wikipedia

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    Literature leaving the line and entering the plane. Painting leaving the plane and entering space. Sculpture stepping out of closed, immobile forms. The artistic conquest of four-dimensional space, which to date has been completely art-free. The manifesto was signed by many prominent modern artists worldwide.

  4. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Shape — areas defined by edges within the piece, whether geometric or organic; Color — hues with their various values and intensities; Texture — surface qualities which translate into tactile illusions; Value — Shading used to emphasize form; Form — 3-D length, width, or depth; Space — the space taken up by (positive) or in between ...

  5. Anamorphosis - Wikipedia

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    The word is derived from the Greek prefix ana-, meaning "back" or "again", and the word morphe, meaning "shape" or "form". Extreme anamorphosis has been used by artists to disguise caricatures , erotic and scatological scenes, and other furtive images from a casual spectator, while revealing an undistorted image to the knowledgeable viewer.

  6. Rabatment of the rectangle - Wikipedia

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    For rectangles with a 3:2 ratio (as in 35mm film in still photography), it happens that the rabatment lines are exactly matched to the rule of thirds lines. [10] In a horizontally-aligned rectangle, there is one implied square for the left side and one for the right; for a vertically-aligned rectangle, there are upper and lower squares. [3]

  7. Elements of art - Wikipedia

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    A shape is a two-dimensional design encased by lines to signify its height and width structure, and can have different values of color used within it to make it appear three-dimensional. [2] [4] In animation, shapes are used to give a character a distinct personality and features, with the animator manipulating the shapes to provide new life. [1]

  8. Perspectivity - Wikipedia

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    A perspectivity: ′ ′ ′ ′, In projective geometry the points of a line are called a projective range, and the set of lines in a plane on a point is called a pencil.. Given two lines and in a projective plane and a point P of that plane on neither line, the bijective mapping between the points of the range of and the range of determined by the lines of the pencil on P is called a ...

  9. Precisionism - Wikipedia

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    Charles Demuth, Aucassin and Nicolette, oil on canvas, 1921. Precisionism was a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I.Influenced by Cubism, Purism, and Futurism, Precisionist artists reduced subjects to their essential geometric shapes, eliminated detail, and often used planes of light to create a sense of crisp focus and suggest the sleekness and sheen of ...