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by noeli noeli on December 5th, 2004

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What type of art is "forme ouverte"?

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  • by Joel Lyons on April 25th, 2005

    Joel Lyons

    We are speaking of "Open Form" and its opposite "Closed Form."
    Open form is a form whose contour is irregular or broken, having
    a sense of growth, change, or unresolved tension. That is, form in
    a sense of "becoming." Closed form is a self contained or
    explicitly limited form, having a resolved balance of tensions, a
    sense of calm completeness as it were; implying a totality within
    itself. One of the distinguishing concerns of 20th century
    sculpture was liberating three-dimensional form from being the
    closed, solid mass that was the pre-modern traditions of carved
    stone and modeled bronze. The new works focused on opening
    up the form and thereby freeing it from constraints of gravity and
    making it "transparent" so as to reveal its internal structure.
    "Closed" and "Open" Form are, at best, relative terms which
    need to be defined by observing the various elements of a
    sculpture to see what sort of relationship is established between
    the sculpture and its ambient space.

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    • The actual helpful answer needs to get bumped up to the top. : )

      Relsqui

      by Relsqui on June 8th, 2005

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