ARTGRAM · THE SHAPE VOCABULARY
ArtGram.Samara
The two that reach sit at opposite ends of the same line. This is the widest a painting can be pulled with only two of its readings — a tension rather than a range.
Where it sits
- Texture
- 1.9 below the catalog median of 3.0
- Contrast
- 2.4 below the catalog median of 3.5
- Form
- 3.9 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Abstraction
- 1.2 below the catalog median of 2.6
- Color Range
- 2.7 below the catalog median of 3.0
- Palette
- 4.1 above the catalog median of 4.0
Means across all 18. 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 Sprig, 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
restlessness 5 · tenderness 4 · awe 3 · solitude 2 · longing 2 · reverence 1 · aliveness 1
The 18
Ordered from the most typical outward. The last of them sit at the edge of the shape, where the next one begins.