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  2. 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.

  3. Tephra - Wikipedia

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    Rocks from the Bishop tuff, uncompressed with pumice on left; compressed with fiamme on right. Tephra is any sized or composition pyroclastic material produced by an explosive volcanic eruption and precise geological definitions exist. [2]

  4. Form and content - Wikipedia

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    [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 distinction between these terms' meanings in different domains of application ...

  5. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is arranged using conscious thought. In the visual arts, composition is often used interchangeably with various terms such as design, form, visual ordering, or formal structure, depending on the context.

  6. Theory of art - Wikipedia

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    The formalist theory of art asserts that we should focus only on the formal properties of art—the "form", not the "content". [4] Those formal properties might include, for the visual arts, color, shape, and line, and, for the musical arts, rhythm and harmony.

  7. Formalism (art) - Wikipedia

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    In art history, formalism is the study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style. Its discussion also includes the way objects are made and their purely visual or material aspects. Its discussion also includes the way objects are made and their purely visual or material aspects.

  8. 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]

  9. Languages of Art - Wikipedia

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    Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols is a book by the American philosopher Nelson Goodman. It is a work of 20th century aesthetics in the analytic tradition. Originally published in 1968, it was revised in 1976. Goodman continued to refine and update these theories in essay form for the rest of his career.