VISA 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Richard Serra
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In a boarder sense, form, in art, means the whole of a piece"s visible elements and the way those elements are united. Visible elements of a piece independent of their meaning. The apparent meaning of the work - its subject. Painting the construction machine as a zebra b/c it looked like a giraffe. Relationships between form and content can be quite unusual and the action or activity power for which something is designed. Equal(corner prop piece) - 1969-70 - richard serra. Structure: built and organized aspect of the nature of the work. Cut the entire house in half and put half of the house on hydraulic slacks and removed some of the foundation so we can visually view the askewed cut. Matta-clark alters louis sullivan"s famous phrase form follows function to form. Architecture is making space without building it . Hair 28 east fourt st. n. y: det: face (1972)
