ARTGRAM · THE SHAPE VOCABULARY
ArtGram.Frond
Three in a row reach and three hold back. Half the ArtGram is loud, half is quiet, and the seam between them is clean. A painting that has decided something.
Where it sits
- Texture
- 3.5 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Contrast
- 3.5 above the catalog median of 3.5
- Form
- 3.1 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Abstraction
- 3.0 above the catalog median of 2.6
- Color Range
- 3.2 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Palette
- 2.8 below the catalog median of 4.0
Means across all 8. 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 Sheaf or Spray, and let one drop back and it becomes Fork or Wing. 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
aliveness 3 · solitude 1 · longing 1 · reverence 1 · tenderness 1 · defiance 1
The 8
Ordered from the most typical outward. The last of them sit at the edge of the shape, where the next one begins.
