Färg och form

English translation: Colour and form

09:53 Mar 3, 2017

Swedish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture / Interior Design

Swedish term or phrase: Färg och form

...att arbeta med färg och form...
This is a tricky one, because the literal translation would be "working with colours and shapes" or similar, however, this common Swedish expression relates more to the overall topic of which both design elements are merely members, so to speak, rather than each of the individual words.
Does anyone have any clever ideas? This is mostly directed towards native English speakers or people who have an extremely advanced command of the English language. Or who just happen to know the answer to this one...
:)

Eng_Copywrit (X) KudoZ activity Questions: 10 (none open) Answers: 5 Sweden
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English translation:Colour and form

Explanation:
It really is this simple, I think. You could go off on various tangents and talk about design and shape and so forth, but colour and form sums it up perfectly. While it is something of a Swedish expression, the term 'colour and form' does come up quite a lot in English as well when talking about visual arts. Hope this helps!

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Note added at 27 mins (2017-03-03 10:20:42 GMT)
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You can really just search "colour and form" (with the inverted commas so you get those words in that order) and see it used extensively, but here are a couple of examples. The examples are quite specific but an online search will reveal it’s used in all kinds of ways with regard to visual arts.
http://www.colourandformsociety.org/
https://www.bauhaus100.de/en/past/teaching/classes/colour-an...
http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/discover/articles-and-inspira...

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Matt Bibby
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Colour and form

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Colour and shape

Sven Petersson

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Elements of Art

Frank van Remmen

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Colour and form

Matt Bibby
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:25
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Asker: Do you happen to have any reference links, so I can see how the term has been used?

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Colour and shape

Explanation:
:o)

Reference: http://www.winchdesign.com/portfolio/coral-waves/
https://colourandshape.co.uk/whydowelikethethingswedo/

Sven Petersson
Sweden
Local time: 02:25
Native speaker of:

Swedish,

English
PRO pts in category: 27

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Reference: Elements of Art

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Without any further reference, and for what it's worth.. ;)
both colour and shape are part of these..

Reference: http://arthistory.about.com/cs/reference/f/elements.htm

Frank van Remmen
Netherlands
Native speaker of: Dutch

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