As innovative ideas took hold in the sciences, modern artists created new ways of seeing the world through formal experiments. (portlandmuseum.org)
Still life arrangements have been used as ways of exploring the natural world, celebrating material pleasures and creating formal experiments for examination and observation. (zero1magazine.com)
His subject matter was not chosen as particularly suitable for formal experiments in abstraction: in his late works «he continued to explore visual perception, natural phenomena, modern life, the course of history and the social and ethical contexts that determine the endeavours of mankind». (painters-table.com)