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Elements of Design

The Building Blocks of Art

Elements and Principles Worksheets !

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DEFINE it SEE it in Action

Find and cut out magazine images

that CLEARLY show the element /

principle. For Line, the image must contain mostly

different types of lines.

Copy the definition from the PPT presentation.

Copy the notes from the PPT

and complete the illustrations.

Look anywhere in the book and find an artwork that CLEARLY

shows the element/principle.

Line Albrecht Dürer St. Christopher

Robert Motherwell Beside the Sea, No. 22

Line

An element of art that is used to define space, contours, and outlines, or suggest mass and volume. It may be a continuous mark made on a surface with a pointed tool or implied by the edges of shapes and forms.

Properties of Line

Length Width Surface Direction

Shape Wassily Kandinsky Circles in a Circle

Andy Warhol Flowers

Shape

An element of art that describes an enclosed space defined by other art elements such as line, color, and texture. A shape has two dimensions: height and width.

Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism (Supremus 58)

Types of Shapes Geometric Shapes that are named, measured, mechanical, and have regular edges.

Organic Free form shapes that have irregular edges and are inspired by living things.

Form Henry Moore

Standing Figures and Ideas for Sculptures Georges Jouve

Abstract Sculpture

Form

An element of design that appears three-dimensional and encloses volume. A form has three dimensions: height, width, and depth.

Wayne Thiebaud, Around the Cake

Types of Forms Open Form

Closed Form

Henry Moore,

Yorkshire Sculpture

Park

Isamu Noguchi, Untitled

Value Käthe Kollwitz

Self-Portrait Charles Sheeler

Windows

Value

An element of art concerned with the degree of lightness and darkness of colors and greys.

Rembrandt van Rijn, Philosopher in Meditation

Ways to Create Value Smooth transition with Graphite

Color Theo Van Doesburg

Composition Gino Severini

Dancer

Color

An art element with three properties: hue, intensity, and value. The character of surfaces created by the response of vision to wavelengths of reflected light.

Theo van Rysselberghe, Encampment Near a Moroccan Village

Color

Primary Colors Red, Yellow, Blue Secondary Colors Orange, Green, Violet

Texture Albrecht Dürer

Young Hare James Abbott McNeill Whistler

The Gold Scab

Texture

The surface quality of an artwork usually perceived through the sense of touch.

Meret Oppenheim, Object

Texture

Implied Textures Simulated texture that is created to look like something it is not. The illusion of texture.

Actual Textures Real tactile textures on an artwork that feel as though they appear.

Space Maxfield Parrish

Getting Away from it All Francis Picabia

Sunrise in the Midst

Space

An element of art that indicates areas between, around, above, below, or within something.

Camille Pissarro, Boulevard Montmartre-- Night

Ways to Create Space Size As object go back in space they should get smaller.

Texture As objects go back in space their texture should be less distinct.

Overlap Place objects on top of each other to create the illusion of depth.

Placement As objects go back in space, they should be placed higher on the page.

Color / Value Colors should get lighter and duller as objects go back in space.

Grant Wood, Stone City, Iowa