This document outlines some basic properties of art, including form and content. Form refers to visual aspects like line, shape, color, space, and composition. Content refers to non-visual aspects like social context and meaning. Key elements of form are discussed, such as line types, color properties, texture, perspective, and styles. Content includes the context, intention, and meanings associated with a work of art.

1. Basic properties of Art

2. Form and content
• Form refers to purely visual aspects of art.
• Content refers to non-visual aspects of art
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3. Form
• Line
• Shape
• Color
• Space
• composition

4. Line
• Implied - movement of the viewer’s eyes follows
a path determined by the artist
• Actual – when it is visible
• Expressionistic
• Classical
• Romantic

5. Barnet Newman, “Onement I” 1960s

6. Titian, Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin 1516-1518

8. David, “Death of Socrates” 1787

16. Color
• Hue
• Value
• Saturation
• Complementary colors
• Cool and warm colors

17. Texture
• Actual
• Implied

20. space
• Is what contains objects
– Actual and 3 dimensional
– Represented illusionistically in two
dimensions
– Picture plane
– Foreground, middleground, background
– objects

22. Perspective
• Overlapping
• Dimunition
• Vertical and diagonal perspective
• Atmospheric perspective

23. Content
• Social, political, religious , economic
contexts
• Intention of the artist
• Reception of the work
• Meanings of the work to both artist and
viewer

24. Subject vs Subject Matter

26. Style
• Period style
• Regional style
• Representational styles
– Realism
– Naturalism
– Idealism
Abstract styles
nonrepresentational
expressionism