ARTGRAM · THE SHAPE VOCABULARY
ArtGram.Sprig
A pair, a gap, then one on its own. A main argument and a second thought the painting did not abandon.
Where it sits
- Texture
- 3.1 above the catalog median of 3.0
- Contrast
- 3.2 below the catalog median of 3.5
- Form
- 3.0 below the catalog median of 3.0
- Abstraction
- 3.3 above the catalog median of 2.6
- Color Range
- 3.0 below the catalog median of 3.0
- Palette
- 3.6 below the catalog median of 4.0
Means across all 48. 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 Quatrefoil, Sheaf or Spray, and let one drop back and it becomes Fork, Samara 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
longing 10 · awe 10 · reverence 6 · restlessness 6 · solitude 5 · aliveness 5 · defiance 4 · tenderness 2
The 48
Ordered from the most typical outward. The last of them sit at the edge of the shape, where the next one begins.