1. Formal Elements Elements of Art Principles of Art

2. What makes up an art work?
The Elements of art

3. Elements of Art The composition of an art work is made up of the arrangement of the elements. These are known as the Elements of Art
Color
line
texture
tone
shape /form

4. COLOUR
Colour is very expressive and an exciting element of art. It appeals strongly to the senses and emotions.
Colour can communicate in all different ways, it can be very powerful thing in art work. Art works can communicate by colour alone. It can cause emotional reactions.

5. COLOUR Primary colours-yellow, red and blue.
(colours that can not be made by mixing other colours.
Secondary colours- purple, green and orange (colours mixed from a combination of any two primary colours)
Complimentary colours (colours found on the opposite on the colour wheel.)

6. Monochromatic colour scheme (uses only one colour and tints and shades)
Harmonious colours- colours that have something in common. One colour will be in harmony with another.

7. Primary colours Lichtenstein

8. Secondary colours

9. Complementary colours Gauguin

10. Monochromatic colour scheme Escher

11. Colour Schemes

12. Colour schemes

13. Complementary colours scheme

14. Communicating with colour
Cool colours go away from you
Van Gogh

15. Van Gogh

16. Rothko
Warm colours come towards you

17. Rothko

18. Lines Line in art may mean a single thin stroke
It may signify the meeting edge of two areas
It may refer to the contours – as in sculpture
Line can display strong suggestion of
Movement
Line can produce a sense of tranquility

19. Line Clement Meadmore

20. Line can create volume Escher

21. Lines can create movement they can move through an art work Escher

22. Lines can create movement Brett Whiteley

23. Brett Whiteley

24. Brett Whiteley

25. Brett Whiteley Larger lines in the foreground
Smaller lines in the back ground give an illusion of distances, space and perspective.

26. Lines create pattern and shape John Olsen

27. Tone Tone can be flat or graduated
Can be created by using shading, line or dots.
Lines can be used to create tone in hatching or cross-hatching
Dots can be used to create tone.

28. Rick Amor

29. Tone
Tone can be subdued
Strong
Contrasting
Rick Amor

30. Tone Rembrandt Hatching and cross-hatching

31. Tone Dramatic use of tone. Mattia Preti
Tone used to attract out attention to the most important part of the painting
Spot light shining on the painting

32. Texture Read or Simulated
Real texture are the textures that actually exist – they are what you actually feel
Simulated textures

33. Texture
Grained
Rough
Corrugated
Smooth
Furry
Shiny
prickly

34. Texture Van Gogh

35. Texture
When we actually touch and feel a surface we experience real texture
Real texture; the feel of a surface
Cactus, feathers, scales
When we look at a photograph or a painting of the texture of a surface such as glass or velvet leather, we see patterns of light and dark that create the effect of texture
Simulated texture; a two dimensional surface that imitates real texture, simulated textures copy or imitate real textures.

36. Simulated texture imitates real texture Max Ernst

37. Oldenburg real texture, the feel of a surface

38. Shape / Form
A shape is an area that is defined in some way by a line, an edge, a colour or a texture. If we traced around its outline we would have a shape, silhouette
Shapes are flat they have only two dimensions – height and width
Shapes can be geometric – look as if they were made with a ruler.
Organic – irregular, uneven shapes of nature.

39. Shape

40. Shape / Form
Forms, like shapes have height and width but they also have the third dimension depth. They are solid. They have volume and occupy space.
Two dimension - painting
Three dimension - a sculpture

41. Elements of Art
These five elements are the primary aspects of visual perception. Every artwork can be described by reference to these elements.
For example, a work will have the presence of strong lines or absence of line. A work may be full of tone or a complete lack of tone.

42. Principles of Design These are the nine main principles of design
Space
Balance
Proportion
Emphasis
Unity
Contrast
Repetition
Movement
Rhythm
Direction

43. Principles of Art
The artists use the principles to combine the elements in a satisfying way.

44. Ways to create space
Divide the picture into the fore-ground, middle ground and background
Strong details is used in the foreground, with gradual loss of detail as the image fades into the back ground
Large objects in the fore ground graduating to smaller objects in the back ground
Overlapping of objects give the appearance of objects being in front of each other
Warm colours in the foreground and cool colours in the back ground

45. Degas Space

46. Balance
Refers to the distribution of weight in an art work so that no one part overpowers another or seems heavier that another.
Artists may choose to create imbalance of a particular purpose. Sydney Long

47. Proportion
The relationship between the size of the objects within an artwork.
Eugene von Guerard

48. Emphasis
An artist can create a centre of interest by allowing one area of an art work to dominate.
Picasso

49. Contrast Picasso “Girl Mirror”

50. Repetition
John Brack - “Collins St 5pm”

51. Rhythm
Richard Mock