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The Elements and Principles of Art

Explore the fundamental building blocks of art - from lines and shapes to color and texture. Learn how to use principles like balance and emphasis to create captivating artworks.

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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. LINE A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point. Ansel Adams Gustave Caillebotte

  4. Pablo Picasso

  5. COLOR Consists of Hue (another word for color), Intensity (brightness) and Value (lightness or darkness). Alexander Calder Henri Matisse

  6. VALUE The lightness or darkness of a color. Pablo Picasso MC Escher

  7. SHAPE An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional. Joan Miro

  8. Gustave Caillebotte

  9. FORM A 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional. For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, is a form. Lucien Freud Jean Arp

  10. S P A C E The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things. Robert Mapplethorpe Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas). 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 actual or implied.

  12. Cecil Buller

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

  14. BALANCE The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work. Alexander Calder

  15. Symmetrical Balance The parts of a work are organized so that one side mirrors the other. Leonardo DaVinci

  16. Asymmetrical Balance The parts of a work are organized so that one side does not mirror the other. James Whistler

  17. Radial Balance The work is based on a circle with its design extendingfrom center. Strasbourg France, Cathedral Rose

  18. EMPHASIS The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most. Jim Dine Gustav Klimt

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

  20. PROPORTION The comparative relationship of one part to another with respect to size, quantity, or degree; SCALE. Gustave Caillebotte

  21. RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM A regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement. and MOVEMENT Marcel Duchamp

  22. Vincent VanGogh

  23. PATTERNand Repetition Gustav Klimt Repetition of a design.

  24. UNITY When all the elements and principles work together to create a pleasing image. Johannes Vermeer

  25. http://www.projectarticulate.org/principles.php

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