Form refers to a set of visual elements. The object in front of us and the idea or stucture outside of the work. Form can also show abstract ideas such as symmetry, balance, proportion, weight.
Formal elements include
- Line
- Scale
- Shape
- Size
- Composition
- Color
Content is meaning that is expressed through form.
Formalism shows art as self referential object instead of conveying a message. Formalist work tends to be focused on formal elements such as shape, color, and materiality.
Abstact and abstraction means art that does not resemble the real world. The words are often replaced with nonrepresentational and nonobjective.
Poetics of meaning describes a slippage of identity when looking at a form that does not represent any type likeness or subject.
Description of formal elements
Line is the most basic mark that can be ordered, chaotic, and occupies and divides space. Another formal element is Color which brings out emotion and the temperature. Composition is the arrangment of lines and shapes in a space and fields represents pictures across a painting. Scale refers to a works size in relation to the world around its parts and to realtion of its parts to one another within a whole. Large works seem more authoritive and powerful while small works show intamacy. Format refers to the shape and proportions of a picture surface. Surface represents the evidence of what the artist is doing such as a gentle stroke.
Painting as representation explains the narrative of a painting while painting as presentation represents the formal themes of a painting.
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