1. Elements of Art and Principles of Design

2. Elements of Art
The building blocks or ingredients of art. They structure and carry the work.

3. Elements of Art
Line
Form
Color
Space
Value
Texture
Shape

4. LINE
Pablo Picasso
A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.

5. LINE
May be vertical, horizontal or diagonal, curved, straight, zigzag, or show emotion.

6. LINE

7. LINE Contour lines- outline the edges of forms or shapes
Gestural lines- indicate action and physical movement

8. COLOR
Consists of Hue (another word for color), Value (lightness or darkness) and Intensity (brightness).
Henri Matisse
Alexander Calder

9. COLOR 1. HUE: this is the name of the colors
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 or strength of a color

10. Neutral Colors
These colors are made by adding a complimentary color (opposite on the color wheel) to a hue. Neutralized hues are called tones.

11. Tints and Shades Shades- adding the color black.
Tints – adding the color white to lighten a hue
Shades – adding black to darken a hue
Shades- adding the color black.

12. Warm – red, orange, yellow Cool – green, blue, violet
Warm and Cool Colors
Warm – red, orange, yellow Cool – green, blue, violet

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

14. VALUE
High Range in Value
Low Range in Value

15. 2-dimensional and it encloses space
SHAPE
Joan Miro
2-dimensional and it encloses space

16. Shapes can be geometric or organic.
GEOMETRIC: square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, circle, cone
ORGANIC: free form shapes, shapes in nature; for example: leaves, trees, animals

17. SHAPE
Organic vs. Geometric

18. FORM
The appearance of a 3 dimensional object which is encloses and holds volume
Jean Arp
Lucien Freud

19. 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.

20. FORM
Form can be 2D
Form can be 3D

21. SPACE
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
Foreground, Middleground and Background (creates DEPTH)

22. Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas)
SPACE
Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas)

23. TEXTURE
The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc.

24. Textures may be actual or implied.

25. 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
Actual – texture that you can feel with your sense of touch

26. You should now have 7 Elements of Art Pages turn your book over and start from the other side……

27. They are concepts that affect content and message.
Principles of Design
The ways in which the Elements of Art are organized are referred to as the Principles of Design.
They are concepts that affect content and message.

28. Principles of Design Balance Variety Emphasis Proportion Rhythm
Movement
Unity
Principles of Design

29. BALANCE
The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work.
Alexander Calder

30. Symmetrical Balance
The parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other.
Leonardo DaVinci

31. Asymmetrical Balance
When one side of a composition does not reflect the design of the other.
James Whistler

32. Radial Balance
Slice it like a pizza-
Each piece will be the same

33. EMPHASIS
The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most.
Jim Dine
Gustav Klimt

34. The part that catches your attention first.
EMPHASIS
The part that catches your attention first.

35. CONTRAST PROPORTION COLOR EMPHASIS
Can be created through the use of many different elements and principles like…
CONTRAST
PROPORTION
COLOR

36. RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM
A regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement.
Marcel Duchamp

37. RHYTHM
The repetition of lines, shapes, or colors to create a feeling of movement.

38. MOVEMENT The motion created in a work of art.
Often uses the principle of rhythm to achieve this.

39. The feeling of action or directional flow
Vincent VanGogh

40. UNITY
When all the elements and principles work together to create a pleasing image. The feeling of wholeness or the parts belonging together.
Johannes Vermeer

41. The use of differences and change to increase the visual interest of the work.
VARIETY
Marc Chagall

42. VARIETY
The use of different lines, shapes, and colors in a piece of work.

43. PROPORTION
The comparative relationship of one part to another with respect to size, quantity, or degree; SCALE.
Gustave Caillebotte

44. Proportion
…size / scale
…with color

45. PROPORTION

46. Review- What principles do you see?

47. Proportion

48. ?

49. Balance- Symetrical

51. Rhythm

53. Movement

55. Proportion

57. Emphasis

58. Please hand in your P & E Book when your done !
Write your name on it!!!

59. When returned to you, keep all your P & E Book in your Art bag You can study from it for your mid-term and final exams.