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Open Form
A form with irregular or broken contour, having a sense of growth, change or unresolved tension.
Optical Colour Mixture ...
open form A form whose contour is irregular or broken, having a sense of unfinished growth.
hard-edge painting - contours and surfaces painted with definite, sharp edges as opposed to open form * ...
Stockhausen called both of these possibilities "polyvalent form" (Stockhausen, Texte 1, 241-51), which may be either open form (essentially incomplete, pointing beyond its frame), as with Klavierstück XI (1956), ...
On the other hand, a new quality now entered his work via an unconventional, pre-Impressionist mode of painting: the direct, spontaneous application of paint to the ground ("alia prima"), with its tendency to favour more open forms.
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 See also: Painting, Movement, Impression, Intensity, Harmony
  
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