1. Language of Art
First Impressions.
Anders Rodin

2. Language of Art: Objectives
Indentify the elements of art and the principles of design
Describe media used it is used in art
List the process used in drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture
Name and identify the subject, composition and content in a work of art

3. Language of Art: Vocabulary
Composition
Content
Elements of art
Freestanding
Medium
Nonobjective art
Perception
Principles of design
Relief
Subject
Symbol

4. Language of Art
When the meaning of ideas and feelings are shared, we call that communication.
Art is a way to communicate; it is a language that is used to express things that everyday words alone can not explain.
The language of art goes beyond simple description.
The arts cross cultural barriers.
Debbi Kenote

5. Language of Art: The elements
Every language has it’s own system for communication
The language of visual art also has a system. All of the objects you look at in a work of art are made up of common elements and are arranged according to basic principles
Debbi Kenote

6. Language of Art: The elements
A symbol is something that represents something else. In the language of art, we use visual symbols to communicate ideas.
The visual symbols in the language of art are known as the elements of art
Just as there are basic words( ie. nouns verbs, adjectives…etc.), there are basic kinds of art elements

7. Language of Art: The elements
Line
Value
Color
Shape
Form
Space
Texture
No matter how an artist expresses their idea or feeling, the work will contain some or all of these elements.
When you look at an image, it can be difficult to separate one element from another. Like reading a sentence, you read all the words at once to gather the meaning.

8. LINE A mark with length and direction.
Ansel Adams
Gustave Caillebotte
A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.

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

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

11. SHAPE
An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional.
Joan Miro

12. Jean Arp
FORM
A 3-dimensional object;or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional.
For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, is a form.
Lucien Freud

13. S P A C E
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas).
Claude Monet
Foreground, Middle ground and Background (creates DEPTH)

14. TEXTURE
The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be actual or implied.

15. Language of Art: Principles of design
After you learn to recognize the elements, you can start to recognize the ways in which they are organized. Think about a language; communication is more than understanding the meaning of the words. The words must be organized in to a sentence, which is organized into a paragraph, which is organized into a larger essay.

16. Language of Art: Principles of design
Balance
Emphasis
Contrast
Harmony
Rhythm
Movement
Pattern
Unity
Proportion
Variety

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

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

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

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

21. CONTRAST
A large difference between two things to create interest and tension.
Salvador Dali
Ansel Adams

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

23. Vincent VanGogh

24. PATTERN and Repetition
Gustav Klimt
Repetition of a design.

25. UNITY
When all the elements and principles work together to create a pleasing image.
Johannes Vermeer

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

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

28. Media and Process The material used to make art is called a Medium
A medium can be almost anything; as simple as pencil to as elaborate as gold. When using more than one type of medium, the plural is called media.

29. Media and Process: Drawing
Drawing is the process of moving a pointed instrument over a surface and leaving a mark.
The most common media for drawing includes graphite pencils, pens, charcoal, crayons and pastels.

30. Media and Process: Drawing
While the general process of drawing is the same for these media, each one also has a unique specific process. For example, using pen and ink is much slower and more deliberate than creating charcoal sketches. The choice of media and the process is selected based on the artists purpose.

31. Media and Process: Drawing
There are many different purposes for drawing. Some of the most important are to help the artist develop stronger perception skills.
Looking is not necessarily the same as perceiving. Looking is simply noticing and labeling what you see. Perception is the act of looking carefully at every detail, thinking about what you see and then analyzing it.
Paelle Powell

32. Media and Process: Drawing
In History, drawing has traditionally been used as a first step in completing a painting or other art projects. Rough sketches, or studies, are almost always done before creating a work in another medium.
In recent times, drawing has developed into an art process that is accepted on its own merits.
Hannah Holtgeerts

33. Media and Process: Painting
Painting is the process of applying color to a surface. The surface is the material to which the paint is applied.
All paints have three basic ingredients; pigments, solvent and binder.
Hanna Holtgeerts

34. Media and Process: Painting
Pigment is the finely ground powder that gives every paint it’s color.
The binder is the glue that holds the pigment together in a form that can be spread over a surface and allows it to remain there
Solvent is the material used to thin the paint.
The binder for tempera paint is egg. The binder for watercolor is gum arabic and the solvent is water. The binder for acrylic paint is an acrylic polymer. When acrylic paint is went, water is the solvent; when it is dry it is water proof. Oil paints use different kind of oil as the binder.

35. Media and Process: Printmaking
Printmaking is the process where the artist transfers the original image from one prepared surface to another prepared surface. Often this original image is transferred multiple times.
Printmaking is different that a photographic reproduction. All prints made by a printmaking process are made using three basic steps.

36. Media and Process: Printmaking
Creating a printing plate: This is the surface onto which the image is placed
Inking the plate: The artist applies the ink to the plate with something a brayer (a roller)
Transferring the image: The prepared surface is pressed against the inked plate and the ink is transferred to the new surface.

37. Media and Process: Printmaking
There are four main techniques artists use for making prints; Relief, intaglio, lithography and screen printing.
Relief printing: a process consisting of cutting or etching a printing surface in such a way that all that remains of the original surface is the design to be printed.
Intaglio: the ink forming the design is printed only from recessed areas of the plate.
Lithography: ink is applied to a grease-treated image on the flat printing surface; blank areas, which hold moisture, repel the lithographic ink. This inked surface is then printed—either directly on paper, by means of a special press
Screen printing: is a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface.

38. Media and Process: Sculpture
Sculpture is a work of art that takes us three dimensional space. It can be free standing which can be viewed from all sides. It can be a relief sculpture where the form projects from a flat surface. Artists use a variety of sculpture media, (ie. Clay, plaster, stone, metal or wood). The process includes carving, modeling, casting and assembling.

39. Media and Process: Sculpture
Carving: The artist cuts or removes material to reveal the desired form
Modeling: The artists builds up a form by adding and manipulating the material
Casting: Melted material is poured into a mold
Assembly: The artists finds and connects a variety of different materials.

40. A work of art
The Subject: This is the image that the viewer identifies in the work
The Composition: The is the way that the artist uses the principles of design to organize the elements
The Content: The is the message that the artist is communicating