form

Examples of form in the following topics:

• Form

• Modern Architecture: Form Follows Function

  • Modern architecture adhered to Louis Sullivan's famous precept, "Form follows function," which meant the absence of ornamentation.
  • The great 19th century architect of skyscrapers, Louis Sullivan, promoted an overriding precept to architectural design: "Form follows function".
  • Modern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and by the creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building.
  • Buildings displayed their functional and structural elements, exposing steel beams and concrete surfaces instead of hiding them behind decorative forms.
  • Explain Louis Sullivan's adage, "Form follows function," and its influence on modern architecture

• Mannerist Sculpture

  • Mannerist sculpture, like Mannerist painting, was characterized by elongated forms, spiral angles, twisting poses, and aloof subject gazes.
  • While sculpture of the High Renaissance is characterized by forms with perfect proportions and restrained beauty, as best characterized by Michelangelo's David, Mannerist sculpture, like Mannerist paining, was characterized by elongated forms, spiral angels, twisted poses, and aloof subject gazes.
  • In defining figura serpentinata, Emil Maurer writes of the painter and theorist Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo: "the recommended ideal form unites, after Lomazzo, three qualities: the pyramid, the 'serpentinata' movement and a certain numerical proportion, all three united to form one whole.
  • The Mannerist style of sculpture began to create a form in which figures showed physical power, passion, tension, and semantic perfection.
  • They were a popular Renaissance form at which Giambologna excelled in the later part of the century.

• Ceramics in Mesopotamia

  • The invention of the potter's wheel in the fourth millennium BCE led to several stylistic shifts and varieties in form of Mesopotamian ceramics.
  • This photograph displays the various forms(including a form that resembles a present-day cake stand) that pottery took during the Akkadian Empire.
  • The Third Ur Dynasty, better known as Ur III, witnessed the continuation of unpainted ceramic vessels that took a variety of forms.
  • Like other ceramic objects, tablets could be fired in a kiln to produce a permanent form if the text was believed significant enough to preserve.
  • Pottery produced during the "Old" Babylonian period shows a return to painted abstract designs and increased variety in forms.

• Ceramics in the Jomon Period

  • So-called flame vessels, along with the closely related crown-formed vessels , are among the most distinctive forms from this period; representative forms such as clay figurines of people and animals also appeared around this time.
  • "Crown-formed vessel," a variation on the flame vessel style for which Jōmon art is famous.

• European Expressionist Architecture

  • Form also played a defining role in setting apart expressionist architecture from its immediate predecessor, art nouveau, or Jugendstil.
  • While art nouveau had an organic freedom with ornament, expressionist architecture strove to free the form of the whole building instead of just its parts.
  • This sculpted building shows a relativistic and shifting view of geometry: devoid of applied ornament, form and space are shaped in fluid concrete to express concepts of the architect and the building's namesake.
  • Expressionist architecture utilized curved geometries and a recurring form in the movement is the dome.
  • In Mendelsohn's design, form and space are shaped in fluid concrete and devoid of applied ornament.

• Post-Impressionism

  • Post-Impression refers to a genre that rejected the naturalism of Impressionism in favor of using color and form in more expressive manners.
  • Post-Impression refers to a genre of painting that rejected the naturalism of Impressionism, in favor of using color and form in more expressive manners.
  • For example, they continued using vivid colors, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were also more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, distort forms for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colors in their compositions.
  • From the 1880s onward, several artists, including Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, envisioned different precepts for the use of color, pattern, form, and line, deriving these new directions from the Impressionist example.
  • Georges Seurat's works are Pointilist, using systematic dots of color to create form and structure.

• Steel-Frame Construction

  • Steel frame construction is a building technique in which vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams form a 'skeleton frame'.
  • Wide sheets of steel deck can be used to cover the top of the steel frame as a 'form' or corrugated mold, below a thick layer of concrete and steel reinforcing bars.
  • Another popular alternative is a floor of precast concrete flooring units with some form of concrete topping .
  • Steel columns can be protected by encasing them in some form of fire resistant structure such as masonry, concrete or plasterboard, or spraying them with a coating to insulate them from the heat of the fire.
  • Thin sheets of galvanized steel can be formed into steel studs and used as building material for rough-framing in commercial or residential construction.

• Yoruba Artwork in the transAfrican Context

  • Over the years, many Yoruban artists have merged foreign and contemporary influences with the traditional art forms found in West Africa.
  • The traditional art forms among the Yoruba include beading, braiding, tattooing, clay molding and ceramic work, bronze casting, weaving and dyeing (such as the traditional adire indigo-dyed cloth), sculpting, and many other forms.
  • There is also a vibrant form of customary theater known as Alarinjo, which has its roots in the medieval period and has given much to the contemporary Nigerian film industry.
  • Over the years, many Yoruba artists have come to merge foreign ideas of artistry and contemporary art with the traditional art forms found in West Africa.
  • Aiming to use art for social impact, artists such as Jeff Donaldson strived to create an "art for the people": an art form that was recognizable by and directed toward everyday people, rather than a group of well-educated elite.

• Carving

  • Employing chisels, blades, or a number of other sharp tools, artists carve away material until the final form of the art work is achieved.
  • Petroglyphs, or rock engravings, are perhaps the oldest surviving forms of carved sculpture, created by removing part of a rock surface by carving, abrading and incising .
  • Hard stone carving is another ancient form of carved sculpture and involves carving semi-precious stones such as jade, onyx or rock crystal.
  • It is a very stable form of sculpture due to the fact that reliefs are often made in stone, and the fact that it remains a solid piece.
  • There are different degrees of relief depending on the height of the sculpted form from the background.