1. FIU Summer 2017 Professor Lacayo
ARE 3313
FIU Summer 2017
Professor Lacayo

2. Elements of Art: The basic components used by an artist when producing works of art.
Line: A continuous mark made by a moving point.
Contour line: A line or lines that surround and defines the edges of an object or figure.
Crosshatching: A method or technique of crossing lines to create shadows.
Value: Art elements that describes the lightness or darkness of a hue.
Form: It describes an object with three-dimensions.
Shape: An element of art referring to a two-dimensional area.
Texture: It refers to the way things feel or look as if they might feel if touched.

3. Value scale

6. Contour drawing

7. Class work

13. Portraits

16. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface. The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used.
Color: an element of art made of three qualities; hue, intensity, and value.
Hue: A color’s name.
Pigment: Finely ground powder that gives every paint its color.
Analogous colors: any three colors which are side by side.
Complementary colors: any two colors which are directly opposite of each other.
Monochromatic: Consisting of only one color

17. Color Wheel

18. Some Formulas for Color Harmony
Analogous colors
Complementary colors

19. Georges Seurat A Sunday on la Grande Jatte. C.1884

22. Class work: Create your own color wheel / Still life

26. Class work: Crayon etching
Principles of Art Refers to the different ways that the elements of art can be used in a work of art.
Class work: Crayon etching 

27. Principles of Art (Design Principles / Art Principles) Refers to the different ways that the elements of art can be used in a work of art.
Pattern: Repetition of the elements of art.
Emphasis: It refers to a way of combining elements to stress the differences between them.
Variety: It refers to a way of combining art elements in involved ways to create intricate and complex relationships.
Unity: The look and feel of wholeness or oneness in a work of art.
Balance: It refers to a way of combining art elements to create a feeling of equilibrium in an art work.
Rhythm: It refers to the careful placement of repeated elements in a work of art to cause a visual tempo or beat.
Movement: A principal of art used to create the look and feeling of action and guide the viewer’s eye through the work of art.
Proportion: It refers to the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other.

29. Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889

30. Crayon etching is a type of art-making that exploits the properties of water-based ink or paint and waxy crayons

33. Recyclable character

34. Pablo Cano (born March 11, 1961, in Havana, Cuba) is a Miami-based artist. His creates marionettes which he uses in performances and exhibits as sculptures.

37. Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter artist and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits.

41. Grid -Framework of parallel bars with spaces between them.

43. M. C. Escher (Artist):Maurits Cornelis Escher, or commonly M. C
M. C. Escher (Artist):Maurits Cornelis Escher, or commonly M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.

44. Drawing Hands, 1948

45. Waterfall, Relativity, 1953

46. Tessellations: patterns made up of shapes that line up edge to edge without creating gaps or overlaps.

47. Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co- founding the Cubist movement

48. Pablo Picasso Born: 25 October 1881,Málaga, Spain Died: 8 April 1973 (aged 91) Mougins, France

49. Picasso Makes Faces

50. Dora Maar, 1937

51. The Weeping woman 1937

52. Girl Before a Mirror, 1932

53. Three Musicians, 1921