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Color Review. Color Quiz TOMORROW!. Principles of Design – Concepts that govern how artists organize the Elements of Art THE PRINCIPLES OF ART/DESIGN Harmony Variety Economy Movement Proportion Balance Emphasis.
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Color Review Color Quiz TOMORROW!
Principles of Design – Concepts that govern how artists organize the Elements of Art THE PRINCIPLES OF ART/DESIGN Harmony Variety Economy Movement Proportion Balance Emphasis
Variety in art refers to the use of contrasting or different types of Elements in a work of art. Using Variety adds interest.
Variety creates… • Contrast – extreme or pronounced variation
Color – the visual response to the wavelengths of sunlight identified as hues
Hue • Hue designates the common name of a color and indicates its position on the spectrum or on the color wheel.
Primary Colors • Red, blue, and yellow comprise the three primary colors. • The preliminary hues that cannot be broken down or reduced. These are the hues from which all other colors on the spectrum can be made.
Secondary Colors • Orange, violet, and green are the secondary colors. – • a color produced by mixing two primary colors.
Intermediate Colors – colors resulting from mixing a primary and a secondary color. (Red-orange, red-violet, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet) Notice the primary color is always listed first… red-orange, yellow-green, blue-violet
Warm Colors • Warm, or advancing colors, are those that resemble fire and heat. Red, red-violet, red-orange, and yellow-orange are examples of warm colors. • Warm colors appear closer and are more eye catching than cool colors.
Cool Colors • Cool, or receding colors, are associated with peace and calm. Blue, blue-green, and blue-violets represent cool colors. • Cool colors in a composition tend to visually recede and look smaller. They are not easily seen from a distance.
Intensity – the saturation or purity of a hue. A vivid color is high intensity and a dull color is low intensity.
Local Color – the color as seen in the objective world (green grass, blue sky, red barn) Local Color Not Local Color
Complementary • Complementary color: two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel. A primary color is complementary to a secondary color. (Red and Green, Blue and Orange, Violet and Yellow)
Value Value is the lightness or darkness of a hue achieved by adding white, gray, or black. • Tint - adding white to a hue • Shade – adding black to a hue Tint
Split Complementary • A color and two colors on either side of its complement.
Monochromatic • Monochromatic: colors having only one hue; The complete range of color from white to black.
Color is one of the most expressive elements in art because its quality affects our emotions directly. When we view a work of art we do not have to rationalize what we are supposed to feel about its color; we have an immediate, emotional reaction to it.
Color begins with and is derived from light. • Where there is light there is some color. • Where there is no light there is no color.
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (1881 – 1973) • born in Malaga, Spain Home where he was born
ABSTRACTION • “The process or result of generalization by reducing simplifying the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon “ - - Wikipedia IN ART – Abstraction Means To: • Simplify, reduce and/or rearrange imagery in a composition
best known for co-founding the Cubistmovement (with Georges Braque) • Cubism: • objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form • the artist depictsthe subject from multiple viewpoints
went through a “Blue Period” in his art after the death of a friend The Old Guitarist 1903, oil on Panel And Femme aux bras Croises 1902
Blue Period” was followed by a “Rose Period” as he was coming out of his depression Boy with a Pipe, 1905
Les Demoiselle d’ Avignon • Oil on Canvas; completed in 1907 • Cubist style • Influenced by African Masks • Controversial – originally rejected by the art world
Guernica – painted for the World’s Fair - 1937 • depicts the bombing of Guernica, Spain by Germans during the Spanish Civil War