Elements of Art and Principles of Design · triangle, rectangle, rhombus, circle, cone ORGANIC: free form shapes, shapes in nature; for example: ... Leonardo DaVinci that one side

ElementsofArtand

PrinciplesofDesign

ElementsofArt

Thebuildingblocksoringredientsofart.Theystructureandcarrythework.

ElementsofArt

LineColorValueShape

FormSpaceTexture

LINE

Amarkwithlengthanddirection.Acontinuousmarkmadeonasurfacebyamovingpoint.

Pablo Picasso

LINE

Maybevertical,horizontalordiagonal,curved,straight,zigzag,orshowemotion.

LINE

Contourlines- outlinetheedgesofformsorshapes

Gesturallines-indicateactionandphysicalmovement

LINE

Consists of Hue (another word for color), Value (lightness or darkness) and Intensity (brightness).

Henri Matisse Alexander Calder

COLOR

Colorhasthreeproperties:

1.HUE:thisisthenameofthecolors

2.VALUE:referstothelightnessordarknessofahue.

3.INTENSITY:referstothepurityofthehue(called“chroma”)

COLOR

NeutralColorsThesecolorsaremadebyaddingacomplimentarycolor(oppositeonthecolorwheel)toahue.Neutralizedhuesarecalledtones.

Tints– addingthecolorwhitetolightenahue

Shades– addingblacktodarkenahue

Shades- adding the color black.

TintsandShades

WarmandCoolColorsWarm– red,orange,yellow

Cool– green,blue,violet

The lightness or darkness of a color.

MC Escher Pablo Picasso

VALUE

HighRangeinValue LowRangeinValue

VALUE

Anenclosedareadefinedanddeterminedbyotherartelements;2-dimensional.

Joan Miro

SHAPE

SHAPEShapescanbegeometricororganic.

GEOMETRIC:square,triangle,rectangle,rhombus,circle,cone

ORGANIC:freeformshapes,shapesinnature;forexample:leaves,trees,animals

Organicvs.GeometricSHAPE

A3-dimensionalobject;orsomethingina2-dimensionalartworkthatappearstobe3-dimensional.

Jean ArpLucien Freud

Showsanobjectinspace,themassorpositivespaceitoccupies.

Forexample,atriangle,whichis2-dimensional,isashape,butapyramid,whichis3-dimensional,isaform.

Formcanbe2DFormcanbe3D

Thedistanceorareabetween,around,above,below,orwithinthings.

Foreground,Middleground andBackground(createsDEPTH)

SPACE

Positive(filledwithsomething)andNegative(emptyareas)

SPACE

Thesurfacequalityor"feel"ofanobject,itssmoothness,roughness,softness,etc.

TEXTURE

TEXTURE

Texturesmaybeactualorimplied.

Actual– texturethatyoucanfeelwithyoursenseoftouch

Implied– texturethathasbeensimulatedindrawingand

paintingonasmoothsurface

TEXTURE

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PrinciplesofDesign

WhatweusetoorganizetheElementsofArt,orthetoolstomakeart.

Theyareconceptsthataffectcontentandmessage.

PrinciplesofDesign

BalanceEmphasisContrastMovement&Rhythm

UnityVarietyProportion

Thewaytheelementsarearrangedtocreateafeelingof

stabilityinawork.Alexander Calder

BALANCE

SymmetricalBalance

Thepartsofanimageareorganizedsothatonesidemirrorstheother.Leonardo DaVinci

AsymmetricalBalance

Whenonesideofacompositiondoesnotreflectthedesignoftheother.

James Whistler

Thefocalpointofanimage,orwhenoneareaorthingstandoutthemost.

Jim Dine Gustav Klimt

EMPHASIS

EMPHASIS

Thepartthatcatchesyourattentionfirst.

Canbecreatedthroughtheuseofmanydifferentelementsandprincipleslike…

CONTRAST

PROPORTION

COLOR

EMPHASIS

Alargedifferencebetweentwothingstocreateinterestandtension.

Ansel Adams

Salvador Dali

Contrast

…withcolor…withproportion/scale

Contrast

RHYTHMRHYTHMRHYTHMRHYTHMRHYTHMRHYTHMandMOVEMENT

Aregularrepetitionofelementstoproducethelookandfeelofmovement.

Marcel Duchamp

MOVEMENT

Themotioncreatedinaworkofart.Oftenusestheprincipleofrhythmtoachievethis.

RHYTHM

Therepetitionoflines,shapes,orcolorstocreateafeelingofmovement.

Vincent VanGogh

When all the elements and

principles work together to create a pleasing image.

The feeling of wholeness or the parts belonging

together.Johannes Vermeer

UNITY

Theuseofdifferencesandchangetoincreasethevisualinterestofthework.

Marc Chagall

VARIETY

VARIETY

Theuseofdifferentlines,shapes,andcolorsinapieceofwork.

Thecomparativerelationshipofoneparttoanotherwithrespecttosize,quantity,ordegree;SCALE.

Gustave Caillebotte

PROPORTION

PROPORTION

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