Content - the subject matter of an artwork - is elucidated, or illuminated, or constrained or totally F'd up by the way an artist employs form. Form, which is all the physical aspects of an artwork (medium, color, structure, etc.), will determine if the content is communicated as the artist intends it to be. Or sometimes, on a tough day, just in some artistically acceptable manner. In the olden days, when content looked like reality, this was something a viewer was able to think about, to attempt to discern, to judge. It did not mean that the artist's intention was what the viewer actually saw. That is a totally different kettle of fish. But regardless of the viewer, it was a criterion of integrity for the artist.
Today, this has changed and become much more difficult. In much of abstraction, the boundaries between content and form have become substantially blurred....even in the mind of the artist, many of whom proceed in an essentially "contentless" fashion, or at least effectively so. In abstraction, what is the representation of an idea, after all? And even the abstraction of form has proceeded far past anything discernible, in most cases. So this traditional relationship, always so important for purposes of visual and philosophical clarity, not to mention the questions of integrity of meaning and intention, are today frequently absent.
Does this matter? I don't know that it does, from the perspective of a viewer. After all, a work of art either moves one or it doesn't. But for the artist? It certainly changes their practice. Is it better to simply go, without impediment or obligation to form? More emotive, certainly, more attention to structure, texture and color - the design elements, certainly. Does this potentially tap into something deeper? Or does it lose something deeper? Just what is it that the discipline of form adds??? I surely have no answers. But I have many questions.
Fast food is convenient because it is cheap and it’s prepared ahead of time and you don’t need to cook it. You just order and enjoy the meal especially if you don’t know how to cook. It saves time and energy.
Harriet Tubman is credited with conducting upward of 300 enslaved people along the Underground Railroad from the American South to Canada. She showed extraordinary courage, ingenuity, persistence, and iron discipline.
The prepositions used in the following sentences are in, across, of, from, to at, and before.
Explanation:
in cats, dogs, and elephants
in some reptiles
across Ortega Bay
of whitewashed stone
from the local stone quy
to the pier
of the island
of the boat
from the mainland
at the stroke of ten
from the mainland
to the residents
on the island
of the passengers on the boat
of the boat to port
from her father
of his
for many years
of his salary
before he retired
for twenty years
of his daughter
in his footsteps
The purpose of a prepositional phrase is to connect different elements of a sentence and show the relationship between them. The only elements they must include are a preposition and an object of the preposition.
