Tuesday, May 10, 2011

12 - Nonobjective shapes

Most people think that abstraction is a bunch of shapes slapped together on canvas, this is not true. This is something known as Nonobjective shape. Nonobjective shapes have no object reference and no subject matter suggestion. Nonobjective shapes are often used to simplify design shapes and can be seen all the time in design books that are going over the design concept topics.


These three depictions of Winnie the Pooh show off Realistic, Abstract, and Nonobjective forms of art. The one on the far right is nonobjective. The artist has revert poor Winnie the Pooh to a few shapes and nothing else. Bother.


Trying to keep with the theme of superheroes and comics, the closest I could find on short notice was this scene out of "Heroes" The sculpture behind the two characters in Kirby Plaza is the non-objective, nothing but shapes.

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