ARTGRAM · THE SHAPE VOCABULARY
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Two readings reach with something quiet between them. The painting leans two ways and does not fill the gap, and what is missing is as much the work as what is there.
Where it sits
- Texture
- 2.5 below the catalog median of 3.0
- Contrast
- 3.7 above the catalog median of 3.5
- Form
- 2.3 below the catalog median of 3.0
- Abstraction
- 1.9 below the catalog median of 2.6
- Color Range
- 2.2 below the catalog median of 3.0
- Palette
- 3.9 below the catalog median of 4.0
Means across all 53. The signature is what holds for the shape as a whole, not a rule every painting obeys: a named silhouette cutting through a continuum, not a category with a boundary.
What it is next to
Let one more reading reach and it becomes Frond, Sprig or Trillium, and let one drop back and it becomes Spur. Two paintings a single step apart are related in a way you can see, which is what makes the thirteen a language rather than a list.
What it invites
longing 12 · awe 11 · reverence 7 · solitude 6 · aliveness 6 · tenderness 5 · restlessness 4 · defiance 1 · absorption 1
The 53
Ordered from the most typical outward. The last of them sit at the edge of the shape, where the next one begins.