s emotional or national significance). Formal elements are primary features which are not a matter of semantic significance – including colour, dimensions, line, mass, medium, scale, shape, space, texture, value, and their corollaries – and secondary features which are relations of the primary features with one another – including balance, contrast, dominance, harmony, movement, proportion, proximity, rhythm, similarity, unity, and variety."
             This description of the "flag" example explains formalism easily too; that the onlooker would either look to the aesthetics, the size and colour which are often bland and uninteresting, or to the meaning behind the flag, its story or significance. Formalism often seems to concern itself with looking at or analyseing artwork rather then from t
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