UNIT 5: GEOMETRIC SHAPES IN ART

GEOMETRIC SHAPES IN ART

ACTIVITY 1: SEVEN SHAPES PROJECT

The seven shapes Project consists of using seven different geometric shapes or the same shape repeated seven times like the following example.

  
 ACTIVITY 2: BECOME AN ARTIST USING GEOMETRIC SHAPES

Where can we find Geometry in Art? Well, this is your project. You are going to become an Artist using Geometric Shapes. Check the following Artists and base your work on one of their works of Art.  

STEPS: 

1 - You select an Artist (from the list below or a different one that you like) and search about his/her works of Art and his/her life. 

2 - You choose one of his/works of art and print it. 

3 - You became an Artist! It is not about imitating, it is about using the work of Art you printed as an inspiration for your own work of Art. 

ARTISTS USING GEOMETRIC SHAPES

- Victor Vasarely 

- Piet Mondrian

- M.C. Escher

- Wassily Kandinsky

- Kazimir Malevich

- Pablo Picasso

- George Braque