Since the 1900s, there have been many different styles and trends of sculpture. In contemporary art, sculpture has become increasingly non representational, with artists using materials such as steel, concrete, wood and even light to create form. Modern artists, from the 20th century onwards have began using an assortment of different materials, rather than the traditional marble, stone or bronze seen in classical sculpture. Modern sculpture Raymond Duchamp-Villon: The Large Horse Many great sculptures were created during this period, including Michelangelo’s David. Renaissance artists took inspiration from the Ancient Greeks, as there was a revival in interest in Greek and Roman art and literature. One of the most famous examples of sculpture from the Ancient Greek period is the relief ‘Parthenon frieze’ which is a beautiful marble high relief, that was made to decorate the Parthenon’s naos. The Greeks portrayed their gods as having human form and most of their sculpture had a heavy focus on human figures. ![]() The Ancient Greeks used both relief and three dimensional sculpture to depict myth, history, the gods and heroes. Three dimensional sculpture maintains its dimensionality, no matter which angle the piece is viewed from. Relief sculpture is a form of sculpture where elements are raised above a flat background, while three dimensional sculpture has more depth and volume. In sculpture, there are broadly two types of form that can be created, relief sculpture and three dimensional sculpture. Examples of organic forms include clouds, mountains and trees. They can be used to create natural or abstract compositions which have a softer feel to them than geometric forms. Organic forms are more free-flowing and irregular in shape. Organic Form Winged Victory of Samothrace Examples of geometric forms include cubes and pyramids. These forms can be used to create regular patterns in artwork or to draw attention to certain areas of a composition. Geometric Form Gregor Kregar: Clouds for Richard Pearseįorms that are geometric are based on mathematical equations and shapes which have been used by humans since ancient times. Geometric forms are based on mathematical shapes such as circles, squares and triangles while organic forms are more free-flowing and natural such as clouds or trees. There are two main types of forms in art: geometric and organic. These include shading and using dark and light pigments to represent shadow and highlights. It can be difficult to represent forms in traditional media such as painting and drawing but there are some techniques which can be used to create the illusion of three dimensional form. Artists use both shapes and forms to create interesting compositions. While forms are three dimensional shapes which have depth and volume. ![]() Shapes are two dimensional forms which are created with lines or curves. Form relates closely to other elements of art, in that texture and space can be used to create form, then value, colours and line can be used to create the appearance of form. By looking at the elements and principles of art, artists can decipher the meaning, artists’ intent and age of a piece. ![]() These are the elements with which artists can conduct formal analyses of an artwork. Elements of Art: Formįorm is an element of art, alongside colour, line, texture, shape, space and values. This creates highlights and shadows, therefore giving the illusion of form, even though it was drawn on a flat surface. ![]() In this etching by Rembrandt, he has rendered the form of the grass and building using the hatching and cross hatching techniques. The different shapes created by the folds and creases of the drapery contribute to the overall form of the sculpture. The forms of the marble can be seen in the contouring, highlighting and shadows. Carved out of marble, the sculptors created defined muscles and deep set features to casts shadows and emphasise the forms. Laocoön and His Sons shows the Trojan priest and his sons being attacked by serpents. Then a clay sculpture may be comprised of multiple cubes, spheres or more complex forms which create a three dimensional piece. For example, a painting may contain curved lines, shadows and highlights which form the shape of a human figure. Examples of form in Artįorm can be seen in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography and illustration. Elements of sculptures are defined as a forms, rather than shapes, because shapes are defined a broadly as being two dimensional. Artists can represent three dimensional form on a two dimensional surface by rendering shape, highlights and shadows. It is an element of art that describes how artists represent three dimensional shapes. 8 The importance of form in art Definition of form in Artįorm can be defined as the physical structure or shape of a work of art.
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