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Shapes as Art
Arrow Chevron Circles And Spheres Cones Crystal Egg Grill Hearts Hexagon Honeycomb Shape Lines Octagon Organic Shapes Pentagon Rectangle Spade Square Stars Trapezoid Triangle Wiggles
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Arrow, As A Found Shape, As A From Of Art

An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile that is launched via a bow, and usually consists of a long straight stiff shaft with stabilizers called fletchings, as well as a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, and a slot at the rear end called the nock for engaging the bowstring.[from wikipedia]

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Chevron, As A Found Shape

A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped pattern.

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Cones

A circle which lost diameter while traveling a line

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Crystal, As A Found Art Shape

A crystal shape is any shape the resemble those of crystallized minerals.

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Egg

An oval shape from Latin "ovum," which means egg.[from wikipedia]

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Grill, As A found Shape

Grillwork is decorative grating of metal, wood, stone, or other material used as a screen, divider, barrier, or as a purely decorative element. It may function as a window, either with or without glazing. Grillwork may also refer to grilles, decorative front ends of motor vehicles. Grillwork is sometimes referred to as simply as a grill or as grille, but the latter terms do not convey a decorative quality. These words are all derived from the Old French greille.[from wikipedia]

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Hearts

On display and as art and jewelry

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Hexagon, Shape As Found In The Wild

Hexagon shape from the Greek hex meaning six. Here we show mostly regular hexagons.

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Honeycomb Shape, As Found In The Wild, Jack London Square, Oakland, California

A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal prismatic wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen.[from wikipedia]

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Lines

Straightwith negligible or unimportant width and depth.

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Octagon, Shape As Found In The Wild

Octagon shape from the Greek okto meaning eight. Here we show mostly regular octagons.

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Organic Shapes, As Found In Nature

Non-geometric shapes that can be formed by nature.

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Pentagon, As A Found Art Shape

A pentagon is a regular polygon with five sides.

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Rectangle, As A found Art Shape

A rectangle is a four sided shape with four right angles, but where the opposingsides are equal length, but all four sides are not equal.

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Circles And Spheres

Roundequal distant from a point

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Spade, As A Found Shape

A spade shape is patterned after the small digging instrument.

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Square, As A Found Art Shape

A square is a four sided shape with four equal lenngh sides and fuor right angles.

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Stars

The ideograph representing an astronomical star's shape

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Trapezoid, As A Found Art Shape

A trapeziod is a convex quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides.

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Triangle, As A Found Shape

A three-sided shape found in natural and urban settings.

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Wiggles, As A Found Art Shape

Wiggles in materials such as sand or water or dirt.


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