Form and Style in Art

Everyone has good ideas. In the world. people are carrying around in their heads splendid ideas for dance, novels, paintings, sculpture, drama and theater, and architecture. What is lacking is form and this is essential to any work of art.

Form is the way a work of art looks it includes everything from the material the artist uses, or the style in which the artist works, to the shapes, lines and colors in the art.

In everyday conversation style, you have style and are familiar with it. However, because it is so crucial to the understanding of art you must consider its meaning specially related to art.

Style is a characteristic of a number of characteristics that you can identify as constant, recurring or coherent. In art the sum of such characteristics is associated with a particular artist, group or culture, or with an artist's work at a specific time. For example, it can be associated with a whole artistic culture (Sung Dynasty style in China) with a particular time and place (early Renaissance style in Rome), with a group of artist whose works show similar characteristics (the Abstract Expressionist style) with one artist (Van Gogh style) or with one artist at a certain time (Picasso's Blue Period style).

Sung Dynasty's style of Painting:


Renaissance Style: