Reggie Laurent "Shapely" Abstractions

Who is Reggie Laurent?

What is abstract art?

Abstract Art

• Artwork that has a simplified or stylized subject

What is shape?

What is a geometric shape?

What is an organic shape?

What is line?

What is a collage?

What is pattern?

Your Project

Collage

Abstract Shape Collage

Project Criteria

An artwork made up of cut or torn materials pasted to a surface

1. Variety of shapes

2. Create several original, organic shapes

3. Variety of patterns on the shapes

4. Line through the background

Reggie Laurent is a self-taught artist based in Atlanta, GA. He has a unique, signature style, of large eye catching abstracts. They are colorful, and highly detailed works which reveal something different every time you look at them. He calls it his “artistic DNA”. He only started painting at the age of 25. Painting began as a hobby and turned into a career.

Element of art; a closed line

Line

Element of art; the path created when an object moves from one point to another

Abstract Shape Collage

A shape with symmetry; the same on both sides

Inspired by artist Reggie Laurent

Free form; not regular or even (also called irregular)

what is movement?

Pattern

Movement

The repetition of lines, shapes or colors

• The principle of design used to create the look and feel of action

• The use of lines, colors, values, textures, forms and space to carry or direct the eye of the viewer from one part of the art work to another