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White's Lichtung (1991) on the Kulturweg Baden-Wettingen-Neuenhof, photographed in 2011. Gillian Louise White (born 20 June 1939, in Orpington) is a British-born sculptor who currently resides and works in Leibstadt, Switzerland. [1] [2] She is renowned for her large-scale public works and art commissions for buildings. In 1969, shortly before ...
"Yoruba art might be defined summarily as 'evocative form' that is meant to be generative and transformative…at the core of Yoruba aesthetics is the saying 'character (or essence) is beauty'. This refers to the essential nature of a thing or person. When art captures the essential nature of something, the work will be deemed 'beautiful'." [12]
Content, on the other hand, refers to a work's subject matter, i.e., its meaning. [2] [3] But the terms form and content can be applied not only to art: every meaningful text has its inherent form, hence form and content appear in very diverse applications of human thought: from fine arts to even mathematics and natural sciences. Even more, the ...
Form is a three-dimensional object with volume of height, width and depth. [2] These objects include cubes, spheres and cylinders. [2] Form is often used when referring to physical works of art, like sculptures, as form is connected most closely with those three-dimensional works. [5]
Gillian White may refer to: Gillian White (actress) (born 1975), American actress; Gillian White (lawyer) (1936-2016), English professor of international law;
Gillian Carnegie (born 1971 in Suffolk) is an English artist. Carnegie is a graduate of the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art . Carnegie works within traditional categories of painting – still life, landscape, the figure and portraiture – with a highly accomplished technique.
American artist Phoebe Adams is known for her biomorphic paintings and sculptures, [9] [10] which are in many museum collections. Desmond Morris , author of "The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal", is a biomorphic painter whose works are in museum collections, including the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Organic Abstraction is an artistic style characterized by "the use of rounded or wavy abstract forms based on what one finds in nature." [1] It takes its cues from rhythmic forms found in nature, both small scale, as in the structures of small-growth leaves and stems, and grand, as in the shapes of the universe that are revealed by astronomy and physics. [2]