Form and Content
Just as a chef with an understanding of basic ingredients and a mastery of cooking principles in the kitchen, an artist with the basic understanding of the elements and principles of design can successfully create art in the studio.
Just as a chef needs to be curious, gain experience, have a willingness to experiment and assess the outcome to be successful as a cook, an artist needs to do the same to be sucessful at creating art.
Ideas and Art
Within a composition there are two basic qualities: form and content.
Form is the application of the Elements and Principles of Design. It also includes the physical tangible properties of the art, such as the thickness of paint, paint strokes, oil, charcoal, watercolor, photography, canvas, etc.
Content is what the artist intended to communicate, what an individual experiences from the work, symbols communicated, subject matter or motifs, the inexplicable, the measurable, and cultural ideas inherently embedded in the art.
