Chapter 2 – Art in Focus The Elements of Art

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Color Line Texture Shape Form Space Value

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Properties of Color- Hue - Name of the color in relationship to its location on the color wheel. Intensity – quality of brightness and purity Value – hues lightness and darkness, adds a visual 3-d effect.

Primary Colors – Pure colors (yellow, red, blue) The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Properties of Color- Primary Colors – Pure colors (yellow, red, blue) Secondary Colors – the mixing of two primary colors (orange, green, violet) Intermediate Colors – the mixing of a primary and a secondary color. (blue-green, orange-yellow)

Complimentary Colors – Opposite on the color wheel. The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Properties of Color- Complimentary Colors – Opposite on the color wheel. Analogous Colors – next to each other on the color wheel. Cool Colors – blues, greens (sky, water) Warm Colors – red, yellow (fire, sun)

                                                                   Project:  Produce a highly inventive color-wheel.  The color wheel will be used as a study guide, which we will refer to repeatedly throughout the course of the year.  Be sure to incorporate a wide variety of tints into your wheel.. 

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Line – A continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Line: (emphasizing) Contour – outline Sketch – quick draw to catch ideas Drawing – detailed and may include value De-emphasizing Line Painterly Conceal

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Line and movement: Vertical – straight up and down (suggests strength and stability) Horizontal – side to side (calmness) Diagonal – Tension Curved – Flowing movement Zig-Zag – quicker movement, confusion

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Line and Movement: Axis Line – an imaginary line that is traced through an object or several objects in a picture. Helps identify movement Helps identify the direction of movement Objects organized in a particular direction For example…

Jacob Lawrence – The Barber Shop

Edward Munch – The Scream

Roy Lichtenstein – The Kiss

Jackson Pollack - Composition #16

Project: Produce a self portrait utilizing lines Project: Produce a self portrait utilizing lines. Adopt a famous artist’s style or be creative and come up with one of your own.

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Texture: The way objects may feel or look as if they might feel if touched. De Heem: The Festoon2 Page 35 - Ingres

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Texture and Sculpture: Especially important to sculptors They recognize the urge to touch a sculpted surface Wood, stone, marble, metal all have unique textural qualities. Use light to play off of surfaces

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Shape and Form: Shape – Two dimensional area clearly set off by one or more of the other visual elements. Shapes are flat. Form – An object with three dimensions Mass - Refers to the outside size and bulk of a form. Volume – Refers to the space within the form.

Luis Melendez – Still life with Fish

Sand art sculpture

Volume and Mass

Project: Create a 3-D Form Project: Create a 3-D Form. Utilize a household item and recreate it using wire to give the illusion of form, remember mass and volume.

The Elements of Art Style: The special way an artist uses elements and principles to organize a work. Space: The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things. Can be 2-D or 3-D 3-D space that actually has height, width and depth, is known as actual space.

The Illusion of Space: Thomas Cole & Frederick Church

The Illusion of Space: Salvador Dali

Actual Space: Henry Moore

Project: Create a surrealistic one point perspective drawing, involving space