Lines and Shapes

Which of the images a,b,c, or d are lines?

-I think a, b and d are lines.

Which of the images a,b,c, or d are shapes?

-C is a shape.

What makes a line?

-A pencil or a pen or whatever tool you want to use and its done when you put its down on paper and draws without picking up the tool.


What makes a shape?

-A shape is made when lines connect and trap space.

critique assignment.

On the first image I chose, I see a naked woman holding roses accompanied by two other ladies in the picture. There is an imaginary triangle connecting all of them. The naked woman is the one closest to the expectator so it seems she's the most important in the picture. There are two other two women, one slightly bigger than the other. The smallest one is kneeling and she's not even showing her face, yet she's looking for something, maybe something the main woman needs. To her right is a woman bigger than her but not bigger than the main woman inthe picture, she seems to be asking the servant for something the naked woman needs. The painting has a very classical look the kind hanging in a lot of museums. It gives a feeling of what perfection should "look like".

This painting doesn't attract much of my attention, it's like I've seen it a million times before and sincerely it bores me a bit. I do find it curious that the servant girl seems to be considered so low she's not even allowed to show her frontside.

The second painting I chose seems to have a certain kind of "not-really-in-order" order ...I dont think that makes sense. I see a white background with a lot of black squares in different sizes, they kind of are in a row. In the upper side of the painting I see smaller squares that due to their different sizes suggest a little bit of a 3-d effect. In the lower middle part of the painting there are bigger squares and a bit more rectangular. In the bottom of the painting there are some colorful squares kind of breaking the pattern of white and black. This painting seeems to be shapping something with the squares and it suggests a breaking the pattern kind of theme. It makes my eyes travel a bit and try and find out it the squares really are shaping something.

I don't like it that much but I do like break of pattern going on in the bottom of the painting. But thinking about it it's almost like music, like beats breaking from a small pattern to a louder more aggresive one maybe unto a colorful cheery one.