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Shape
flat, enclosed area.
-An area enclosed by a line.
-A closed path.
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CURVILINEAR
- shapes
- whose boundaries usually consist entirely of curved lines.
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RECTILINEAR
- shapes
- whose boundaries usually consist entirely of straight lines.
- can appear clean, simple, modern or cold, utilitarian and sterile.
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Geometric shapes
Related to geometry. Usually simple and regular 
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Organic Shapes
- Commonly
- found in nature, such
- as
- plants, animals, sea and sky
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Positive/Negative Shape Integration
Concerned with HOW the
subject fills the format and
what kind of negative shapes
- are
- created around the subject
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Positive Negative Shape Reversal
- An
- arrangement in which the positive and negative shapes alternatively command
- attention
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Enclosure
- the artist has the option of showing the
- entire scene or a portion that continues beyond the format.
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OPEN composition
- has
- the subject interacting with the edges of the format. Completion of the design
- is implied beyond the format.
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CLOSED composition
- has
- the subject entirely contained within the format with “air”
- space all around the subject.
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