The Elements and Principles of Art

1. TheElementsandPrinciplesof Art

2. The Elements of Art The building blocks or ingredients of art. Names and definitions of elements will appear as we go through the presentation.

3. LINE A continuous mark, longer than it is wide; a moving dot. Ansel Adams Gustave Caillebotte

4. Lines may be 2D as with pencil… Lines may be 3D as with wire… Lines may be implied, as with contour edges…

5. As you have seen, lines can have many qualities: They can be: curved or straight Vertical horizontal diagonal Thick or thin smooth or rough Light or dark and continuous or broken

6. Pablo Picasso

7. Derek Cadena and Brent Rodgers • Lines can be… • Vertical: A line that goes north and south, top to bottom • Horizontal: A line that east and west, left and right • Diagonal: Any straight line that is not vertical or horizontal

8. Piet Modrian • Lines can be… • Perpendicular: Two lines that intersect creating 90 degree angles • Parallel: Two straight lines that are evenly spaced at all times

10. SHAPE An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional. Shapes enclose space. Joan Miro

11. Geometric shapes ---circles, squares and rectangles---are regular and precise. They can be measured and have names. Organic shapes are irregular, difficult to measure and do not have mathematical names ---seashells, leaves, flowers, etc.

12. Gustave Caillebotte

13. Stan McQueen Dan Massey

14. FORM A 3-dimensional object or figure; Implied form is when something in a 2D artwork appears to be 3D. Lucien Freud Jean Arp

15. Forms are 3D. They have length, width and height. • Forms enclose 3D space, called Volume. Shape vs. Form 2D 3D Space Volume Inside inside

16. Ron Barrick Leonardo DaVinci

17. S P A C E The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things. Claude Monet Robert Mapplethorpe Space can be shown through foreground, middle-ground and background (creates DEPTH)

18. There are 2 main types of space: Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas).

21. TEXTURE Texture is the way something feels to touch. Implied texture is the way it appears to feel.

22. Cecil Buller

24. VALUE The lightness or darkness of a color or tone. Pablo Picasso MC Escher

25. Tint: light values of a color or tone. • Shade: dark values of a color or tone.

26. Gustav Klimt

27. Russell Hart

28. COLOR The result of light reflections as seen by the eye. Alexander Calder Henri Matisse

29. Color has 3 properties… • 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 “baby” pink)

30. Primary Colors: 3 colors from which all others are mixed. (Traditional/Artist Primaries = Red, Yellow, Blue) Subtractive Primaries: Magenta, Cyan, Yellow – (part of the subtractive color mixing system)

31. Secondary Colors: mixed by 2 primaries only • Tertiary Colors: mixed by a primary and a secondary • Complimentary Colors: opposite on the color wheel

32. This is a color wheel. They are used to help In color identification, Mixing and choosing. They are used by artists And design professionals.

33. …colors that give a visual sense of cold (blue, green, violet) Claude Monet …colors that give a visual sense of warmth (red, orange, yellow)

34. Neutral colors are Ones that do not Give off a feeling Of warmth or cold. They are also called Earth tones. Examples can include Grays & beiges. This painting has a neutral color scheme.

36. Georgia O’Keefe • Monochromatic Colors: Tints and shades of one color.

37. Federico Erra Robert Berdan