ARTGRAM · THE SHAPE VOCABULARY
ArtGram.Sheaf
Four in a run, two held back. A painting doing nearly everything it can, keeping one corner quiet.
Where it sits
- Texture
- 3.4 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Contrast
- 3.5 above the catalog median of 3.5
- Form
- 4.1 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Abstraction
- 3.0 above the catalog median of 2.6
- Color Range
- 3.3 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Palette
- 3.4 below the catalog median of 4.0
Means across all 11. 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 Frond or 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
restlessness 5 · reverence 2 · longing 2 · aliveness 1 · solitude 1
The 11
Ordered from the most typical outward. The last of them sit at the edge of the shape, where the next one begins.
