His charming and elegantly balanced arrangements of forms – shaped a little like leaves, planets, boomerangs, eggs and kidneys – are as instantly recognisable as the furniture and decor of the 1950s, his especial heyday with public collections.
Shorn of this extraneous knowledge and coming to painting with eyes innocent of extraneous concepts, the viewer could then be in a position to look at what painting presents directly to his vision complex arrangements of forms and colours which, for reasons thus far unexplained, have the capacity to move the recipient deeply with emotions utterly alien to the emotions of life.
In its color balances and arrangement of forms, it is a dazzler.
This peculiar arrangement of forms turns out to be a most ordinary American event: a frog-jumping contest in Calaveras County, Calif.
In other instances, the basic mass, volume and arrangement of forms for the building are clearly visible, as in a 1991 drawing for the Guggenheim in Bilbao.
The arrangement of forms on the baize looks like a puzzle or a trick, but I doubt there's a solution.
The architect, by his arrangement of forms, achieves an order which is a pure creation of his spirit... it is then that we experience beauty.
The deep, linear perspectival space of High Renaissance painting is flattened and obscured so that the figures appear as a decorative arrangement of forms in front of a flat background of indeterminate dimensions.
More recent attractions include Alfred Bendiner's sprightly drawing of St. Mark's in Venice (1953), in which the church's multiple towers, domes and arches are seen as a playful arrangement of forms.
Only a few of the products and buildings that the authors include in this survey — Dieter Rams's designs for Braun (a radio and a phonograph) chief among them — manage to transcend the preoccupations of their time and take up residence in that classical ether where designs that are pleasing for their harmonious arrangement of forms live in perpetuity.
