Study up on the variety of ways artists use shape in their work. Shape is one of the seven basic building blocks of art. Using still life paintings of fruit, we look into how artists create their ...

Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso and Aino-Maija Metsola’s works show the two-dimensional mathematical geometric and fluid organic shapes that can be used in Art and Design. A positive shape has ...

Through the eye-fooling genre of Trompe L'oeil, we look at techniques artists use to transform shapes into forms. Art School is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

The elements of art are the building blocks used by artists ... straight or curved; thick or thin. • Shape-- a closed line that can be geometric or organic. • Form-- three-dimensional shapes ...