A very impressive use of color is depicted in Dale Chilhuly s glass sculpture, Violet Persian Set with Red Lip Wraps . The use of color in his sculpture provides cool tones and suggests wavy movements. The quality of the surface. It is described through use of words like smooth, polished, grainy, course, oily, satiny or rough. The texture of the human figure found at Galgenburg, Austria could possibly be described as rough and course due to it s primitive carved appearance.
Spatial qualities Includes mass, volume and space.
Mass and volume are properties of three-dimensional objects that take up space. In Jan van Eyck s painting, The Annunciation , the use of spatial qualities are used to give the feeling of being in a large church with high ceilings common to the kind of churches present in the artist s time period. The organization or arrangement of form in a work of art. The organization of the forms in Guercino s painting Saint Luke Displaying a Painting of the Virgin places important emphasis on the positioning of his subjects. The angel holding the painting on the easel gives Saint Luke an air of divine inspiration.