Unit 2: Shapes in paintings.

When painting a portrait, landscape or even an abstract work, it is impossible not to make shapes given that they are one of the most important contributing factors of a painting. From Venus of Botticelli to Miro’s Harlequin's Carnival, the use of geometric and organic shapes really define the overall works because of the exceptional symmetries created by them. It can be seen how shapes in paintings change with the origin of new tendencies, some using more negative than positive shapes and other using only free form shapes. Also, it is very interesting how people does not notice shapes in paintings at all. Most people just see the overall picture instead of checking the details of how the painting was made. But I think that only painters and experts do that. I think also that the kind of shapes used in a painting gives observers a hint of the painter’s unique work technique. Even when trying to make a circle either by hand of with help of an object, it is impossible that two painters would do and use the space in the same way.  Consequently, the pattern of the shapes make a painting unique. Therefore, aside of the use of colors, texture, materials and tendency, shapes are what really makes a work understandable for the public.