This document discusses the basic elements of visual language, focusing on shapes. It defines different types of shapes, including flat versus volume shapes, positive and negative space, and geometric versus organic shapes. The document also explains how shapes can be represented through outlines, edges, and inside contour lines. It discusses the expressiveness and spatial relationships of shapes, and how shapes are used differently in various art styles like realism, cubism, and abstract art. Activities are suggested to analyze shapes in images by tracing outlines, edges, and drawing inside contours.

1. Basic elements of the visual language

3. Before beginning... Which of these images is the most simple? ¿Where can you see flat shapes? And volume shapes? ¿Which of these images is realistic? And which is not? Piet Mondrian: Composition I Picasso: Man with moustache Antonio López: La Gran Vía