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fruit has played a prominent role in the history of Art it's long been a favorite subject for artists making Still Life paintings and drawings looking at still alive is a useful way of studying how artists approach making shapes shape is one of the seven elements of art along with line form texture value space and color when the beginning of a line connects with its own end or intersects with another as shape is formed in visual art shapes are flat what are defined by their length and width in other words there two dimensional there is an infinite number of shaped but all fall into one of two categories geometric organic geometric shapes are commonly recognized such as squares hexagons rectangles and circles organic shapes are free form and send one of a kind learn how to see the world around them as basic shapes simplifying objects into geometric and organic shapes makes drying them easier shapes inherits the qualities of the lines that used to construct them Princeton this painting by Cezanne has heavy solid outline that Define the shape whereas the fruit and the ink drawing by Manoa Rocky is made a very soft fuzzy lines which approach to making lines produces different feelings and associations in the viewers some artist make oranges that are perfectly round While others draw or paint every little bump and detail of the skin the next time you're looking at a painting or drawing try to notice how the artist is using shapes and their work if you were making a drawing or how would you interpret the objects in front of you would you draw them as Faithfully as possible or would you choose to represent them or abstractly practice for yourself by setting up a boy what fruit and drawing what you see

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