| 单词 | significant form |
| 释义 | > as lemmassignificant form significant form n. (also with capital initials) the formal quality in a work of art which provokes an aesthetic response in the viewer, and hence distinguishes the object as art. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally > hypothetical significant form1914 1914 C. Bell Art ii. i. 8 What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions?.. In each, lines and colours combined in a particular way, certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations..I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art. 1965 Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics 5 113 Significant form cannot be attributed primarily to works of art on the ground that aesthetic emotion obtained from works of art is more intense than that felt in the contemplation of natural objects and pure forms. 2001 C. Freeland But is it Art? i. 15 ‘Significant Form’ is a particular combination of lines and colours that stir our aesthetic emotions. < as lemmas |
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