Group one: Use your shapes to make a composition that expresses action, movement, excitement, etc. Each group will take half of the geometric shapes. (Have the group stand in a circle, square, rectangle and triangle.) Now that we know what geometric shapes look like, let's sort the shapes from the box we just emptied, into two piles one of geometric shapes and those that are not. Let's join hands and as a group make some geometric shapes. The actual shape of your entire body is biomorphic. The actual shape of your body is not a perfect circle, or square, or triangle. For example, a pear has a biomorphic shape. Bio means life, and morphic means form, life-form, or we could say life-shape. In contrast to regular forms, most shapes in nature are irregular shapes or biomorphic shapes. Some other examples of geometric shapes are the triangle and the rectangle. These regular forms or regular shapes are called geometric shapes.

The shapes explored in math class, like the circles and squares, are forms that can be measured.

(Empty the box onto the gallery floor.) The shapes are geometric and biomorphic. PROCEDURE: Here is a box filled with many different shapes. OBJECTIVES: Students demonstrate an understanding of the role of shapes in artworks and learn how they con vey feelings. Materials: Various Plexiglass cutout shapes.ĭESCRIPTION: Students use their bodies and plexiglass shapes to learn the difference between geometric and biomorphic shapes, and discover how shape can express content.

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