Form

The first angel of the ‘Daughters of Art’ is ‘Form’. An art form is the specific shape or quality of an artistic expression.  Our perception captures all the classical elements of art (line, shape, form, space, texture, value & color) while our reasoning mind attempts to understand it. 

Formalism is an approach to understanding art. In art theory, formalism is the concept that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by its form - the way it is made, its purely visual aspects, and its medium. Formalism emphasizes compositional elements such as color, line, shape and texture rather than realism, context, and content. Formalism is a concept that posits that everything necessary to comprehending a work of art is contained within the work of art. The context for the work (ie, structuralists) - the reason for its creation, the historical background - the life of the artist - is considered to be of secondary importance.

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