Creating With Shapes (1971)

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] shape is the outline or silhouette of something objects in nature are all kinds of different shapes [Music] all shapes can be reduced to three basic [Music] kinds the first basic shape the rectangle can be any [Music] size in art rectangular shapes don't have to be exact in nature lots of things have a rectangular [Music] feeling many man-made objects are also rectangular it's fun just to play around with rectangles and see what you can make of them what you make doesn't have to look like anything it can just look like what it is shapes put together in a way that pleases [Music] you all through history artists have used rect angular shapes at first it may be hard to see the rectangles [Music] the triangle the second basic shape what are some triangular shapes we find in nature there are many man-made triangular shapes too what are some things you can create using triangles la [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Triangular shape is used in many paintings [Music] here's the third and final basic shape the circle and variations on the circle where can you find circles in nature [Music] how about man-made circular objects [Music] using circular shapes you can make lots of things [Music] see any circles in this painting circles help to hold everything in the picture together [Music] all three basic shapes can be [Music] combined can you see two of them here all three shapes are here see them it helps to see what shapes go together to make up the whole object you can create many different things using the three basic shapes [Music] here's how one artist put the shapes together can you see the shapes in this painting [Music] how about this [Music] one can you see how the three basic shapes are used together in this painting [Music]