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1883 John Singer Sargeant,
Madame X
1937 George LK Morris,
Nautical Composition
1842 JMW Turner
Snow Storm
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form - a figure that appears to be three dimensional
(mass, volume); or the overall organization of a work
1. Making Shape Take Form
a. plane structure
1. the representation of straight-sided figures in 3D
(square as cube)
2. breaking down the rounded contours of a figure into
flat planes (human drawn as interlocking geometric forms)
Skeleton Volumes, courtesy of
FARP
b. shading / modelling - the depiction of relative darkness
in areas where light has been partially blocked
Michelle White Still-Life, 1991
2. Positioning Forms in the Pictorial Space
a. overlapping - illusion of depth created by forms "in
front" obscuring parts of forms in "back" 1921
Fernando Leal, Zapatistas at Rest
b. atmosphere - using hard and soft edges, warm and cool
colors, etc. to indicate compositional position
Alex Katz, January Snow, 1993
c. scale - using size to indicated distance from the viewer
John Jacobson,
Reaction, 2000
3. Illogical Use of Form - using familiar visual cues to
depict something that does not exist yet is somehow strangely familiar
Max Ernst, The Eye of Silence, 1943-44
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III. Elements of Art --- C. Form
