Form in Arts

Abstract

Form is an essential presence in art. We speak of composition in visual and cultural representations in general. In the visual arts it is the relation of the components among themselves and the frame of containment. It has an internal structure that supports and justifies it. It constitutes the work and holds its logic. Its compositional and morphological structural analysis accounts for the way it is constructed and presented. It reveals a conception and interpretation of the world: a reading. Artistic representations are related to the physical, social, political, spatial and temporal circumstances of man and his will of expression. They accompany the evolution of philosophical and scientific thought and use technological inventions to be materialized: they are inexorably linked to the context that gives them relevance and meaning. This allows us to understand that each change in representation installs a new way of apprehending the space-temporal relationship and the subject that represents and is represented.