Artist Who Uses Geometric Shapes

I'm continuing the Elements and Principles of Art series today with a post that includes example artworks that use shape.

I will add to this listing when I find more than, and so this is a good 1 to pin or bookmark! The horizontal images do not contain all of the examples.

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Shape in Art Examples

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Case Artworks that Employ Shape, Full general

Henri Matisse, The Snail, 1953
Okun Akpan Abuje, Nigerian Funerary shrine cloth, late 1970s
MC Escher, Wheel, 1938
Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians, 1921
Grant Woods, Spring Turning, 1936
Edward Steichen, The Sunflower, c. 1920

Artworks with Geometric Shape

Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, 1942-43
Marsden Hartley, Night – and Some Flowers, 1940
Grant Wood, Parson Weems' Fable , 1939
Paul Klee, The Blood-red Balloon, 1922
Le Corbusier, Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamp (interior), 1950-1955
Claes Oldenburg, Geometric Mouse – Scale A, 1969-1971
Wassily Kandinsky, Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913

Artworks with Organic or Gratis-Form Shape

Paul Gauguin, La Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891
Joan Miro, Harlequin's Carnival , 1925
Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-06
Henri Matisse, Icarus, from Jazz series, 1947
Henri Marisse, Beasts of the Sea, 1950
Pablo Picasso, Smashing Even so Life on Pedestal, 1931
Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion, 2001

Shapes Fabricated by Negative Space

David Smith, Cubi IX, 1961
Andy Goldsworthy, Circles, Varied (Shape, Color, Value)
Henry Moore, Reclining Effigy, 1951
André Kertész, Cocky-Portrait, 1926
Aboriginal Roman, Pont du Gard, forty-sixty C.Eastward.

Shapes that Guide your Centre Around the Flick

Grant Wood, Parson Weems' Legend , 1939
Marsden Hartley, Night – and Some Flowers , 1940

Shapes Used to Organize Picture (Pyramidal Configuration, etc.)

Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin of the Rocks, c. 1483
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pieta, 1498-99
Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656
Raphael, Madonna in the Meadow, 1506
Georges Seurat, A Dominicus on La Grande Jatte, 1884

What did I miss? What are your favorite artworks to teach shape? Let me know in the comments!

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The Art Curator for Kids - Elements and Principles of Art Series - Artworks that Use Shape

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