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  2. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    This form can be found in nature, such as flowers, rocks, trees, etc., but can also be seen in architecture. [7] Forms in drawing and painting convey the illusion of three-dimensional form through lighting, shadows, value, and tone. The more contrast in value, the more pronounced the three-dimensional form is. Forms with little value appear ...

  3. Shape and form (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    A form is an artist's way of using elements of art, principles of design, and media. Form, as an element of art, is three-dimensional and encloses space. Like a shape, a form has length and width, but it also has depth. Forms are either geometric or free-form, and can be symmetrical or asymmetrical.

  4. Open form - Wikipedia

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    Open form is a term coined by Heinrich Wölfflin in 1915 to describe a characteristic of Baroque art opposed to the "closed form" of the Renaissance. [2] Wölfflin tentatively offered several alternative pairs of terms, in particular "a-tectonic" and "tectonic" (also free/strict and irregular/regular), but settled on open/closed because, despite their undesirable ambiguity, they make a better ...

  5. Elements of art - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Formalism (art) - Wikipedia

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    In painting, formalism emphasizes compositional elements such as color, line, shape, texture, and other perceptual aspects rather than content, meaning, or the historical and social context. At its extreme, formalism in art history posits that everything necessary to comprehending a work of art is contained within the work of art.

  7. Painting - Wikipedia

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    Painting is an important form of visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction. [3] Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting ), photographic , abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in Symbolist art ), emotive (as in Expressionism ) or ...

  8. Symbolist painting - Wikipedia

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    Another characteristic of Symbolist art was synesthesia, the search for a relationship between pictorial qualities (line, color, rhythm) and other sensory qualities such as sound and scent: Gauguin thus spoke of the "musical aspect" of his art; Rimbaud related vowels to colors (A-black, E-blue, I-red, O-yellow, U-green); Baudelaire also applied ...

  9. History of painting - Wikipedia

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    Tanjore painting is an important form of classical South Indian painting native to the town of Tanjore in Tamil Nadu. The art form dates back to the early 9th century, a period dominated by the Chola rulers, who encouraged art and literature. These paintings are known for their elegance, rich colors, and attention to detail.