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).

Karl Blossfeldt, Adiantum pedatum, 1898-1926, in Unformen der Kunst, pub.1928

Henry Moore, Recumbent Figure, 1938, Green Hornton Stone, Tate

Paul Cézanne, The Gardener Vallier, 1906, Tate

Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 1970

Jean Dubuffet, parade funèbre pour Charles Estienne, 1967, The Met

Duncan Grant, Bathing, 1911, Tate

Gino Miles, Shelter, bronze

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Sierra Nevada from the Alhambra, Grenada, 1910