![]() These are the qualities and energies and actions we notice and therefore make happen in an artwork through the acts of looking and experience. Each element in a work of art has the potential, through relationships and contact with other elements, to foster new forms and life-to convey a sense of growth and transformation to convey that the artwork, though its forms might be literally unchanging, is not fixed but continually in motion, interaction, creation. When two forms meet and press against each other, they create a new line-a juncture, an offspring-out of the encounter and merging of their two separate boundaries: new life and energy generated out of interface. It can be lightning, or stress, or striving. But a line can also represent abstract ideas about boundary, meeting place, energy, fusion, and fission. Paul Klee suggested that a line is a point going for “a walk … a point, shifting its position forward.” In representational works, we often experience a line as designating some particular thing or place: a strand of hair, the horizon, the contour of a form, such as the edge of a cheek or an apple. So too an artwork’s unique, interdependent elements (its points, lines, movements, shapes, forms, colors, structures, energies, tensions, light, and rhythms) must be present, healthy, functional, and purposefully fused-working together in harmony, subservient to the greater whole-in order for that work of art to have life. Those interdependent elements of the body, if they are not purposeful, healthy, and working together, could become useless, if not dangerous, to the organism as a whole. Essential to the life of an organism, such as a human body, are the tensions among ligaments and muscles, the circulation of fluids, the strength and density of bone, the functions of organs, the elasticity and porousness of skin, the rhythms of breathing and heartbeat. You can begin to understand that just as cells are the building blocks of an organism’s life, so too an artwork’s elements are the building blocks of its life. In this way, you can begin to see not just what an artwork looks like, but how it’s structured, what its elements and systems do, how they interrelate, and how they contribute to the life of the artwork as a whole. If you visually break down a work of art into its various components and systems, you will begin to understand how each of its elements functions and how those elements work together in harmony, just as you would if you were learning gross anatomy or dissecting a body. It does not store any personal data.An artwork is a living organism. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". ![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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