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What are the different ways you can turn a shape into a form? Snap a Twitpic or find a 2D image online that is made to look 3D through different art techniques and tell us why.

Introduction

Throughout history, artists found many creative ways to make images that represent real life, to create the illusion of form and depth.

As you will see in the video below, the technique called Tromp L’Oeil is one way that artists use form and depth to create an illusion of three dimensions that fools the eye. Form represented in 2D can be “real,” such as a photograph of 3D object, or “implied,” such as a drawing that appears to have depth and the realism of a photograph.

Sometimes drawn or painted forms can be “Hyperreal” and look very much like a photograph, but form is also used to achieve different feelings, emotions and perceptions. Popular and mysterious street artist Banksy, who was in the news this week for being arrested (the news turned out to be a hoax), creates form using highlights and shadows.

What are some ways that you have noticed artists using form in their work? Take a picture of a 2D image that is made to look like or represent a 3D image, and describe how the effect was created.

Resource

KQED Art School video Elements of Art: Form
Study up on the different ways visual artists create Form in the third installment of our Elements of Art series. Through the eye-fooling genre of Trompe L’oeil, we look at techniques artists use to transform shapes into form.

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We encourage students to reply to other people’s tweets to foster more of a conversation. Also, if students tweet their personal opinions, ask them to support their ideas with links to interesting/credible articles online (adding a nice research component) or retweet other people’s ideas that they agree/disagree/find amusing. We also value student-produced media linked to their tweets. You can visit our video tutorials that showcase how to use several web-based production tools. Of course, do as you can… and any contribution is most welcomed.

More Resources

KQED Art School video Elements of Art: Line
Brush up on your visual literacy as we breakdown the wide variety of lines that visual artists use. Through the lens of the self-portrait, we look at how line is a way for artists to express their individual style and also a tool to control the messages they wish to communicate.

KQED Art School video Elements of Art: Shape
Continue gaining fluency in the language of the Arts with the second installment in our Elements of Art series. Still life paintings of fruit provide the window into artists’ individual style and approach to making shapes.