1. Chapter 2 – Art in Focus
The Elements of Art

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. 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)

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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.. 

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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…

11. Jacob Lawrence – The Barber Shop

12. Edward Munch – The Scream

13. Roy Lichtenstein – The Kiss

14. Jackson Pollack - Composition #16

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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.

19. Luis Melendez – Still life with Fish

20. Sand art sculpture

21. Volume and Mass

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. The Illusion of Space: Thomas Cole & Frederick Church

25. The Illusion of Space: Salvador Dali

26. Actual Space: Henry Moore

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