ARTGRAM · THE SHAPE VOCABULARY
ArtGram.Quatrefoil
Two pairs reaching, facing each other across the centre. Busy at both ends, and balanced in a way that has nothing to do with the composition.
Where it sits
- Texture
- 4.0 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Contrast
- 3.3 below the catalog median of 3.5
- Form
- 3.4 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Abstraction
- 4.1 above the catalog median of 2.6
- Color Range
- 3.2 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Palette
- 3.2 below the catalog median of 4.0
Means across all 5. 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 Corona, and let one drop back and it becomes Sprig. 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 2 · restlessness 1 · awe 1 · reverence 1
The 5
Ordered from the most typical outward. The last of them sit at the edge of the shape, where the next one begins.
