Art has enriched every known world culture for over thirty thousand years. From ancient cave paintings to contemporary installations, artists have experimented with the almost infinite possibilities of forms and images. Appreciating art is about exploring our ability to see and understanding art’s power to move, shock and thrill.

What is art? All visual art plays with two things: form and content. Form describes the many visual elements of an artwork, such as colour and its qualities, texture, line, perspective and more. It refers to the materials chosen and the ways artworks are put together. ‘Content’ concerns the work’s subject and the maker’s intended ‘message’, as well as how viewers decide what images and forms ‘mean’. What an artwork is ‘about’ is always more than what it is ‘of’. Continue reading ‘What Is Art?’