Circles have been used symbolically to communicate "completeness", "balance", and "endlessness"- Shutterstock provides some great examples: the yin yang, the clock, the wedding ring. But circles don't just contain significance because of their physical likeness to real world objects. We even make connections between circles and femininity, maternity, and youth-the curvaceous form of a woman's body, a big pregnant belly, the chubby cheeks of a new baby. The continuous curve and rounded figure reminds many of us of things that appear in nature, like galaxies, stars, planets, clouds, raindrops, flowers, and waves. Often considered a "feminine" shape, circles represent things that are soft, nonthreatening, natural, and maternal.
So, what are the psychological meanings behind popular shapes? Well much like colors, shapes can say and represent many different things to different viewers. In this interesting video essay, Jack Nugent of Now You See It explores how filmmakers use geometric shapes for visual storytelling, which will help you understand key aesthetic concepts about the their psychological effects. They aren't there just because our physical world is made up of beautiful geometry, it's because shapes have aesthetic and psychological significance-and DPs know this. Watch any film and pay close attention to the shapes you see (you'll soon begin to see them everywhere).
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