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Elements of Art and
Principles of Design
Elements of Art
The building blocks or ingredients of art. They structure and carry the work.
Elements of Art
Line
Color
Value
Shape
Form
Space
Texture
LINE
A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.
Pablo Picasso
LINE
May be vertical, horizontal or diagonal, curved, straight, zigzag, or show emotion.
LINE
Contour lines- outline the edges of forms or shapes
Gestural lines- indicate action and physical movement
LINE
Consists of Hue (another word for color), Value (lightness or darkness) and Intensity (brightness).
Henri Matisse Alexander Calder
COLOR
Color has three properties:
1. HUE: this is the name of the colors
2. VALUE: refers to the lightness or darkness of a hue.
3. INTENSITY: refers to the purity of the hue (called “chroma”)
COLOR
Neutral ColorsThese colors are made by adding a complimentary color (opposite on the color wheel) to a hue. Neutralized hues are called tones.
Tints – adding the color white to lighten a hue
Shades – adding black to darken a hue
Shades- adding the color black.
Tints and Shades
Warm and Cool ColorsWarm – red, orange, yellow
Cool – green, blue, violet
The lightness or darkness of a color.
MC Escher Pablo Picasso
VALUE
High Range in Value Low Range in Value
VALUE
An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional.
Joan Miro
SHAPE
SHAPEShapes can be geometric or organic.
GEOMETRIC: square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, circle, cone
ORGANIC: free form shapes, shapes in nature; for example: leaves, trees, animals
Organic vs. Geometric
SHAPE
A 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional.
Jean ArpLucien Freud
FORM
Shows an object in space, the mass or positive space it occupies.
For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, is a form.
FORM
Form can be 2DForm can be 3D
FORM
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
Foreground, Middleground and Background (creates DEPTH)
SPACE
Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas)
SPACE
The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc.
TEXTURE
TEXTURE
Textures may be actual or implied.
Actual – texture that you can feel with your sense of touch
Implied – texture that has been simulated in drawing and
painting on a smooth surface
TEXTURE
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Principles of Design
What we use to organize the Elements of Art, or the tools to make art.
They are concepts that affect content and message.
Principles of Design
Balance
Emphasis
Contrast
Movement &
Rhythm
Unity
Variety
Proportion
The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of
stability in a work. Alexander Calder
BALANCE
Symmetrical Balance
The parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other. Leonardo DaVinci
Asymmetrical Balance
When one side of a composition does not reflect the design of the other.
James Whistler
The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most.
Jim Dine Gustav Klimt
EMPHASIS
EMPHASIS
The part that catches your attention first.
Can be created through the use of many different elements and principles like…
CONTRAST
PROPORTION
COLOR
EMPHASIS
A large difference between two things to create interest and tension.
Ansel Adams
Salvador Dali
Contrast
…with color…with proportion/scale
Contrast
RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHMand MOVEMENT
A regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement.
Marcel Duchamp
MOVEMENT
The motion created in a work of art. Often uses the principle of rhythm to achieve this.
RHYTHM
The repetition of lines, shapes, or colors to create a feeling of movement.
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
The use of differences and
change to increase the
visual interest of the work.
Marc Chagall
VARIETY
VARIETY
The use of different lines, shapes, and colors in a piece of work.
The comparative relationship of one part to another with respect to size, quantity, or degree; SCALE.
Gustave Caillebotte
PROPORTION
PROPORTION
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