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The Elements and Principles of Art

The Elements and Principles of Art. The Elements of Art. The building blocks or ingredients of art. A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point. It may be an actual object, a shape, or a form. LINE. Ansel Adams. Gustave Caillebotte.

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The Elements and Principles of Art

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  1. TheElementsandPrinciplesof Art

  2. The Elements of Art The building blocks or ingredients of art.

  3. A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point. It may be an actual object, a shape, or a form. LINE Ansel Adams Gustave Caillebotte

  4. TYPES OF LINES:

  5. The lightness or darkness of a color. Value is need to express volume. VALUE Pablo Picasso MC Escher

  6. Ways to show value: SHADING HATCHING CROSS-HATCHING STIPPLING

  7. COLOR The common name of a color in the color spectrum / also known as Hue. PRIMARY: R, Y, B SECONDARY: O, G, V TERTIARY: R-O R-V B-V B-G Y-G Y-O Henri Matisse

  8. An enclosed space defined by other elements of art, It is 2-dimensional. GEOMETRIC & ORGANIC SHAPE

  9. FORM A 3-dimensional object; Encloses volume which is the space an object takes up. For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, HEIGHT -LENGTH- DEPTH Jean Arp

  10. S P A C E The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things. Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas). Robert Mapplethorpe Foreground, Middleground and Background (creates DEPTH) Claude Monet

  11. TEXTURE The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be REAL or IMPLIED.

  12. The Principles of Art & Design What we use to organize the Elements of Art, or the tools to make art.

  13. Gives a sense of stability to the body of work. Repeating shapes or weight BALANCE Alexander Calder

  14. Symmetrical Balance Use of identical compositional units on either side of a vertical axis Leonardo DaVinci

  15. Asymmetrical Balance When unequal units create a sense of equilibrium in the pictorial field. James Whistler

  16. EMPHASIS The focal point of interest that pull the viewer’s eye to important parts of the body of work. Jim Dine Gustav Klimt

  17. CONTRAST Salvador Dali A large difference between two things to create interest, drama and tension. Ansel Adams

  18. PATTERNshows Repetition of shapes, lines colors Gustav Klimt Showing elements over & over by action & direction.

  19. UNITY When all the parts equal a whole. The work should not be confusing but elements are in harmony. Johannes Vermeer

  20. RHYTHM The variety of different elements to add interest. Lights and darks alternating give a sense of rhythm RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM Marcel Duchamp

  21. Movement How the viewer’s eye follows a composition. It is seen in repeating shapes & colors. Gustave Caillebotte

  22. ART CRITIQUEDescribe/IdentifyAnalyzeInterpretJudgement

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