the elements of art the building blocks or ingredients of art
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The Elements of Art
The building blocks or ingredients of art.
LINEA continuous mark, longer than it is wide.
Ansel Adams
As you have seen, lines can have many qualities:
They can be curved or straight
Vertical horizontal diagonal
Thick or thin smooth orrough
Light or dark and continuous or broken
Perpendicular: lines that intersect creating 90 degree angle
Parallel: straight lines that are evenly spaced at all times
Lines can be…
Piet Modrian
SHAPEAn enclosed area; 2-dimensional.
Joan Miro
GEOMETRIC SHAPES
Shapes that are regular and precise. They can be measured and have names. Usually have angles (except oval & circle) Examples: squares, rectangles, octagon, circle, etc
ORGANIC SHAPES
Shapes that are irregular, difficult to measure and do not have mathematical names. Usually free-flowing. Examples: Teardrop, heart, leaf, etc.
Stan McQueen
FORMA 3-dimensional object or figure;
Implied form is when something in a 2D artwork appears to be 3D.
Jean Arp
SHAPE VS. FORM 2D 3D Space Volume
Leonardo DaVinci
Ron Barrick
Claude Monet
SPACEThe distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
Space can be shown through foreground, middle-ground and background (creates DEPTH)
2 TYPES OF SPACEPositive (the subject)
Negative (the background)
VALUEThe lightness or darkness of a color or tone.
MC Escher
SHADE: dark values of a color or tone.
TINT: light values of a color or tone.
Russell Hart
COLORThe result of light reflections as seen by the eye.
Alexander Calder
HUE: the actual color itself (its name: red, blue, green)VALUE: the lightness or darkness (dark red, red, pink)INTENSITY: the brightness or dullness (fluorescent pink vs. pastel pink)
COLOR HAS 3 PROPERTIES…
This is a color wheel.
It is used to helpin color identification,mixing and choosing.
Texture is the way something feels to touch.
Implied texture is the way it appears to feel.
TEXTURE
The Principles of Art
The artists’ “checklist” to creating a strong visual composition
the distribution of the visual weight
BALANCE
Balance can be symmetrical (same on both sides), asymmetrical (not the same but similar visual
weight), or radial (same around a center point).
RHYTHMRepetition
used to create a sense of
visual movement
UNITYFeeling of harmony; all parts
working together
VARIETYTo have change in elements
throughout your photograph in order to add interest
EMPHASIS
Focal point; Point of interest