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form vs. content
What is being expressed is the content. In visual art, we call this the subject matter.
How it is being expressed in visual language, is the form.
formal analysis
When beginning to analyze a visual work, we note the subject matter, then bracket it. (We will return to it later, but form comes first.)
Two works can have the same subject, but be formally quite different. The ultimate meanings will be different as well.
Composition
composition: what goes where, how the various elements of the work are arranged in relationship to each other
line
“Line” can refer to literal lines that the artist uses to create shape, suggest depth, etc. These lines can have a variety of characteristics, for example; line can be fine and delicate, or bold and chunky, it can be fluid or halting, precise or sketchy.
They can also be “implied lines” where one shape meets another.
Carl ANDRE, Breda, 1986, blue Belgian granite
Before 1960,sculpture was usually on a pedestaland paintings werehung on the wall.
After 1960, artistsbegan to use ORIENTATION as an expressive formalelement.
Eva HESSENo title, 1970. Latex, rope, string, and wire.Dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art© The Estate of Eva Hesse. photograph by Sheldan C. Collins
Martin PURYEARLadder for Booker T. Washington1996Ash, 438 x 22 3/4 x 1 1/4 inchesInstallation view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
CONSIDER:linecolorshapesize
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