1. Elements and Principles of Art The Building Blocks of Art and How They Are Organized

2. Elements of Art The basic visual symbols in the language of art.

3. Line The path of a moving point through space. Elizabeth Catlett, In Sojourner Truth I fought for the rights of Women as well as Negroes, 1947 Alexander Calder, Mobile, circa 1948 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Divan Japonais. 1893.

4. Shape A two dimensional area that is defined in some way. Piet Mondrian, Composition with Gray and Light Brown, 1918 Joan Miro

5. Form Objects having three dimensions. Henry Moore, Reclining Figure (1951) Barbara Hepworth, Squares with Two Circles (Monolith), 1963

6. Space The area that refers to the area between, around, above, below or within objects. Henry Moore, Reclining Figure (1951 ) M. C. Escher

7. Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitar Player, 1903 Franz Hals, Man Playing a Lute, 1623. Color Response of the eyes to different wavelengths of reflected light.

8. Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair 1878 Color Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitar Player, 1903

9. Value The darkness or lightness of an object. Albrecht Durer, Melancholia 1514 M. C. Escher, Drawing Hands

10. Texture How things feel or look as if they might feel. Janet Fish, Two Jars Hot Pepper Pickles Deborah Butterfield, Wickiup, 1995

11. Principles of Art The way elements are organized to create different visual effects.

12. Movement Creates the look and feeling of action and guides the viewer’s eyes throughout the artwork. Katsushika Hosukai, Great Wave off Kanagawa

13. Rhythm Indicates movement by the repetition of elements or objects. Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-1943 Ford Smith, Autumn Rhythm

14. Kinetic-a work of art that moves in space

15. Pattern A visual repetition of line, shape, or color. Moorish floor tile

16. RegularAlternating Random Types of Patterns and Rhythms

17. Flowing propro Progressive

18. Balance Equalizing visual elements in a work of art. Georgia O’Keefe, RedDiego Rivera, Flower Day, 1925

19. Symmetry-a formal balance in which all objects or elements on one side are identical as well as positioned identically on the other side (a mirror image)

20. Radial Balance-When the elements of art Come out (radiate) from a central point

21. Asymmetry-Informal balance a balance of unlike objects. The arrangement of objects to give the appearance of balance.

22. Proportion Size relationships between one part of an artwork to another. Ancient Egyptian

23. Variety Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913 Different or contrasting elements in an artwork.

24. Emphasis The part of an artwork that is dominant over other parts. Francesco Goya, The Shootings of May Third 1808, 1814 Walt Kuhn,,Two Clowns, 1940

25. Emphasis can be created through contrast, isolation and location.

26. Harmony Stressing the similarities of separate but related parts. Arthur Dove, Nature Symbolized No. 2, 1911