A work of art has two primary components - form and content. It is distinguished by three elements - style, medium, and period. Form refers to the visual aspects like line, color, texture, and composition. Content includes the subject matter, ideas, and social context. Style is a combination of form and content, while medium is the material used and can be 2D, 3D, or mixed. Period refers to the time in which the work was created.
A work of art has two primary components - form and content. It is distinguished by three elements - style, medium, and period. Form refers to the visual aspects like line, color, texture, and composition. Content includes the subject matter, ideas, and social context. Style is a combination of form and content, while medium is the material used and can be 2D, 3D, or mixed. Period refers to the time in which the work was created.
A work of art has two primary components - form and content. It is distinguished by three elements - style, medium, and period. Form refers to the visual aspects like line, color, texture, and composition. Content includes the subject matter, ideas, and social context. Style is a combination of form and content, while medium is the material used and can be 2D, 3D, or mixed. Period refers to the time in which the work was created.
A work of art has two primary components - form and content. It is distinguished by three elements - style, medium, and period. Form refers to the visual aspects like line, color, texture, and composition. Content includes the subject matter, ideas, and social context. Style is a combination of form and content, while medium is the material used and can be 2D, 3D, or mixed. Period refers to the time in which the work was created.
A work of art may be described in basic, non-philosophical
terms as having two primary components - 1. Form 2. Content
Art is distinguished by three elements -
1. Style 2. Medium 3. Period Form Refers to purely visual aspects of art that includes the following formal elements 1. Line 2. Color 3. Texture 4. Spatial qualities 5. Composition
Paul Gaugin, Portrait of the Artist with the Idol
Line An element, usually drawn or painted, that defines a shape with more or less continuous mark. Movement of viewer's eyes over the surface of work may follow a path determined by artist.
Vincent, Starry Night
Colour has several attributes Hue what we think of as color. Primary colors - red, yellow, blue Such colours create Secondary colors by mixing - orange, green, purple Warm and Cool colors
Value relative degree of lightness or darkness
Deeper Lighter
Intensity degree of brightness or dullness of color
Also called saturation Texture is the tactile quality of a surface Smooth Polished Satiny Rough Coarse Oily
These are also present in two forms -
• Actual surface of the work of art • Surface of the object the artist is representing Brancusy, King of kings Brancusy, Bird in space Giacometti, Spoon woman Giacometti, Standing woman Vincent, self-portrait Spatial Qualities 1. Mass 2. Volume Claes Oldenburg, Soft Pay-Telephone
3. Space
• Mass and volume are properties of 3-D
objects - they take up space.
• Space may be 3-D and actual (sculpture, architecture),
or represented in 2-D - illusionist.
• Negative space: unfilled
• Positive space: solids
Composition is an organization or arrangement of form in a work of art.
Pictorial depth (spatial recession) an aspect of
composition in which the 3-D world is represented in 2-D in paintings, drawings, etc.
Picture plane is the 2-D surface
Artists have used many methods to depict objects as
seeming to recede (move away, diminish) from the 2-D surface. Picture space is the area "behind" the picture plane and conventionally contains 3 zones – 1. Foreground 3 2. Middle ground 2 3. Background 1
Perpendicular to the picture plane, forming the "floor" of
the space, are these ground planes. Methods employed on the planes to create a composition with images – 1. Overlapping 2. Diminution (reduction) 3. Perspective Divid Hockney, Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy Content includes; 1. Subject matter 2. Ideas contained 3. The social, political, economic contexts in which the work was created 4. The intention of the artist 5. The meaning in the work of art 6. The reception (reaction) of the audience to the work Style is a combination of form and content. Characteristic feature that makes a painting distinctive has specialized terminologies.
Representational /non-representational or nonobjective:
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Malevitch, Red square and Black Square Dan Flavin, to Piet Mondrian who lacked green Picasso, Violin Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein Styles in Sculpture
Ways of distinguishing basic techniques of a sculpture
Carved Modeled Assembled
Ways of distinguishing physical characteristics of sculpture
Freestanding Relief (high, low, sunken) Michelangelo, David Rodin, The Monument to Balzac Mathura school, Buddha Top, Claes Oldenburg, Soft Shuttlecock
Top right, Richard Serra, Belts
Bottom right, Claes Oldenburg, Knife Ship I Realistic: depicts object as they are in actual, visible reality Naturalistic: physical appearance of rendered image in nature is the primary inspiration; simplified object here resembles with less exactitude Idealized: attempt for perfection grounded in prevailing values of a culture Expressionistic: appeals to subjective responses of beholder, often through exaggeration of form or expression Abstract: is a stylistic opposition of above 3; forms do not depict observable objects; Images represented often with intent of extracting essence of object or idea Conceptual : Concept, sensation, impact etc Phil, chuck close Manet, Portrait d'Emile Zola Manet, Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère Modigliani, Jeane Hebuterne Seated in Profile Marcellus
Buddha, Ajanta Nibuman hunting Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept Joseph Kosuth, Art as Idea, as idea [Water] Christo, Wrapped Tree Jackson Pollok, Action Painting What is Art ? A work of art Medium may be described in basic, non-philosophical and Material from which object is made; terms as having two primary components - 1. Form Broad distinctions include 2-D, 3-D, mixed media, ephemeral arts
2. Content 2-D: painting, drawing, etc.
3-D: sculpture, architecture, etc.
Art is distinguished by three elements - 1. Style Mixed media: collage, assemblage, etc.
