AbstractFormalism, is the concept that a work’s artistic value is entirely determined by its form. To understand formalism, you have to know what form is. Form is the shape of something, and the visual aspects that come together to make that shape. It’s purely visual aspects.

Formalism emphasizes compositional elements such as color, line, shape and texture rather than realism, context, and content. In visual art, formalism is a concept that suggests that everything necessary to comprehending a work of art is contained within the work of art. The context for the work, including the reason for its creation, the historical background, and the life of the artist, is considered to be of less importance. Formalism is an approach to understanding art.

Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials.