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Clive Bell

Clive Bell (1881-1964)

"Significant Form"
  • "... lines and colours combined in a particular way, certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. ... 'Significant Form' is the one quality common to all works of visual art" (Bell, Art, collected in A&S, 187).
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Karl Blossfeldt, Adiantum pedatum, 1898-1926, in Unformen der Kunst, pub.1928
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Henry Moore, Recumbent Figure, 1938, Green Hornton Stone, Tate
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Paul Cézanne, The Gardener Vallier, 1906, Tate
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Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 1970
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Jean Dubuffet, parade funèbre pour Charles Estienne, 1967, The Met
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Duncan Grant, Bathing, 1911, Tate
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Gino Miles, Shelter, bronze
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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Sierra Nevada from the Alhambra, Grenada, 1910
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