A-shaped - tradução para Inglês
![[[Richard Tuttle]], ''Red Canvas,'' 1967, [[National Gallery of Art]] ([[Washington, D.C.]], USA)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/'Red Canvas' by Richard Tuttle, 1967, Corcoran Gallery of Art.jpg?width=200 "[[Richard Tuttle]], ''Red Canvas,'' 1967, [[National Gallery of Art]] ([[Washington, D.C.]], USA)")
Ex: With its A-shaped gate through which the west is consumed like water the city cannot be said to have a logic any more.
![abbr=on}} [[Composition B]] 'formed projectile' used by combat engineers. The shaped charge is used to bore a hole for a cratering charge.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Defense.gov photo essay 110715-N-KG738-278.jpg?width=200 "abbr=on}} [[Composition B]] 'formed projectile' used by combat engineers. The shaped charge is used to bore a hole for a cratering charge.")
![Sectioned [[high-explosive anti-tank]] round with the inner shaped charge visible](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Obus 501556 fh000021.jpg?width=200 "Sectioned [[high-explosive anti-tank]] round with the inner shaped charge visible")
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Shaped canvases are paintings that depart from the normal flat, rectangular configuration. Canvases may be shaped by altering their outline, while retaining their flatness. An ancient, traditional example is the tondo, a painting on a round panel or canvas: Raphael, as well as some other Renaissance painters, sometimes chose this format for madonna paintings. Alternatively, canvases may be altered by losing their flatness and assuming a three-dimensional surface. Or, they can do both. That is, they can assume shapes other than rectangles, and also have surface features that are three-dimensional. Arguably, changing the surface configuration of the painting transforms it into a sculpture. But shaped canvases are generally considered paintings.
Apart from any aesthetic considerations, there are technical matters, having to do with the very nature of canvas as a material, that tend to support the flat rectangle as the norm for paintings on canvas.
In the literature of art history and criticism, the term shaped canvas is particularly associated with certain works created mostly in New York after about 1960, during a period when a great variety and quantity of such works were produced. According to the commentary at a Rutgers University exhibition site, "... the first significant art historical attention paid to shaped canvases occurred in the 1960s...."
