ARTGRAM · THE SHAPE VOCABULARY
ArtGram.Spray
Three together, a gap, and one apart. Nearly full, with a single reading that refuses to join the rest.
Where it sits
- Texture
- 3.1 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Contrast
- 4.1 above the catalog median of 3.5
- Form
- 3.1 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Abstraction
- 4.4 above the catalog median of 2.6
- Color Range
- 2.2 below the catalog median of 3.0
- Palette
- 4.0 below the catalog median of 4.0
Means across all 17. 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, Sprig or Trillium. 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
solitude 4 · longing 3 · reverence 2 · tenderness 2 · awe 2 · restlessness 1 · defiance 1 · aliveness 1 · immersion 1
The 17
Ordered from the most typical outward. The last of them sit at the edge of the shape, where the next one begins.