Clive Bell Research Paper

The Modern art movement was started by many people and has had a major impact on not only on our modern lives but has also made an impact on history itself. One of the artists that helped pushed the movement was a man called Clive Bell, who believed that art should be made with aesthetic emotion and “Significant forms,” instead of Renassiance like artwork. Clive Bell was not only famous for his artwork but also for his critiquing of other artworks that were being made during his era. The ideas of “Significant Forms,” and aesthetic emotions is the pursuit of both his artworks and the Modernism movement that it aids a person to understand why and how the evolution was started. Everyone has different meanings when it comes to the words, “Significant Forms,” and “Descriptive Forms” when it materilize in the arts. For Bell the meaning of “Significant Forms” is the one quality that all artworks have in common. The lines and combonations of moving forms bring out the aesthetic emotions wherever we see artwork, which is part of the groundwork of “Significant Forms”.1 It's different from “Descriptive Forms” by the fact that the artwork is purely made out of aesthetic emotions that help connect the viewer with the artist …show more content…
This concept is so important to Bell's way of critiquing artwork that he not only wrote a paper about but use it to influence what we now call Modern Art. His argument reflects the Modernism movement in the name of “art for art's sake” in many ways.4 One of the artworks that Bell might approve to have “significant form,” is one of Franz Marc's artworks.5 The painting is called “Large Blue Horses,” was made in 1911 and made out of oil.6 The reasons why Bell might consider it meeting his standards is because the colors bring out the aesthetic emotions and the significant forms being the horse helps make the painting have movement. The artwork that Bell would not appreciate