![]() ![]() “Instead of drawing an outline and filling in the color…I am drawing directly in color,” he said. Still immersed in the power of color, he devoted himself to cutting colored papers and arranging them in designs. In the last few decades of his artistic career, he developed a new form of art-making: the paper cut-out. ![]() Biomorphic shapes are often rounded and irregular, unlike most geometric shapes.Īn artist that loved to explore the possibilities of mixing geometric and biomorphic shapes was Henri Matisse. The term biomorphic means: life-form (bio=life and morph= form). These shapes may look like leaves, flowers, clouds-things that grow, flow, and move. They are often found in human-made things, like building and machines while biomorphic shapes are found in nature. Geometric shapes are precise and regular, like squares, rectangles, and triangles. What shapes do you recognize in Beasts of the Sea? Can you find shapes that remind you of playful fish? a floating seahorse? spiral shells? waving seaweed? curvy coral? What about geometric shapes like squares, rectangles, and triangles?Įverything has a shape, right? But what exactly is a shape? Shape is a flat area surrounded by edges or an outline.Īrtists use all kinds of shapes. Large sized colored paper to attach cut shapes to.Heavy cardstock (to prevent curling when painted).Smart Board or computer with ability to project images from slideshow. ![]()
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