General Concepts Of Art PART 1

For the purposes of art history, "form" referes to the shape of the object of art, in the made object, form is the shape that the expression of content takes. To create forms and make a work of art, an artist must shape materials with selected tools. Each of the many materials, tools, and processes that an artist use has its own potentialities and limitations. It is part of all artists' creative activity to select the tools most suitable to their purpose. The technical processes that the artist emply, as well as the distinctive, personal ways in which they handle them, we call their technique. If the material that artist use is the substance of their art, then their technique is their individual manner of giving that substance form.