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Delve into the world of design with a focus on lines, shapes, textures, values, and spaces evident in art through history.
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Foundation Design Art 1020 Professor Catherine Jo Ishino
Elements & Principles of Design Line Value Shape Texture Motion Space
1. Line • Path of a moving point made by a tool, instrument, or medium as it moves across an area • Made visible as it contrasts in value with its surroundings • Shortest distance between two points
Lines in Art • Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) • Referred to as a minimalist,but considered herself an abstract expressionist
Lines in Art Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) American - one of the foremost color field painters
Lines in Nature Edward Weston, Nude, 1925
Lines in Nature Edward Henry Weston 20th Century American photographer (March 24, 1886–January 1 1958) Nature & nude photographer
Lines in City Paul Strand. American modernist photographer and filmmaker. (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976). Along with fellow photographers – Alfred Stieglitz & Edward Weston – helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.
Line comic Humor In Line
Shape Area stands out from space next to or around it • defined or implied boundary • or has differences of value, colour, or texture
Shape Modern Art
Donald Lipski, Who's Afraid of Red, White & Blue, 1991 http://donaldlipski.net/
Rabbit, 1989. Jeff Koons Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 2008, Château de Versailles
Rabbit, 1989. Jeff Koons Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 2007, New York
Value • Relative degree of light or dark • Characteristic of color determined by light or dark, or quantity of light reflected by the color
Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884 – 1886
Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, 1948"
Texture • Surface character of a material that can be experienced through touch or the illusion of touch • Produced by natural forces or through the artist’s manipulation of the art elements
Texture Eva Hesse, Contingent
Space • The interval, or measurable distance, between points or images. • http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/StuartCollection/Irwin.htm
Bill Viola, Stations, 1994, five-channel video/sound installation
Christo’s Gates around the Central Park’s Pond, with Plaza Hotel. 9 February 2005 http://wirednewyork.com/parks/central_park/christo_gates/
Design “A wholeness of need and spirit, reunited through the process of design, can contribute in great measure to the quality and raison d’ etre of life in urban societies.” - Phillip Meggs, 1983-