Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures.

a. True

b. False

It is false, that formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures. Formal analysis can be done also on sculptures. Formal analysis specific type of visual description. Simple explained it is what the viewer sees (the aspects of color, shape, line, mass, and space). It is an analysis of the forms utilized in the painting, or in the sculpture.