1. The Elements and Principles of Art

2. Why should you know them?
Visual grammar.
Making choices.
Recognizing how art was created.
Arrangement can make or break.
Applies to many parts of life.

3. Elements of Art Basic visual symbols in the language of art.
Building Materials
Line, Value, Shape, Texture, Space, and Color.

4. Principles of Art
Rules that govern how artists organize the elements of art.
Blueprints
Variety, Balance, Proportion, Rhythm, Movement, and Emphasis

9. Elements Principles Line Value Shape Texture Space Color Variety
Balance
Proportion
Rhythm
Movement
Emphasis

10. Line
In drawing, line is a mark drawn with a pointed, moving tool.

11. Line Direction
Vertical
Horizontal
Diagonal
Curved

12. Line Variation Lines can vary in Length Width Texture Direction
Degree of curve

13. Using Line Contour Line
Defines the edges and surface ridges of an object.

14. Using Line
Gesture Lines
An expressive movement.

15. Using Line Calligraphic Lines
Usually made with brushstrokes that change from thin to thick in one stroke.

17. Variety The principle of design concerned with difference or contrast.
Variety is achieved by adding something different to a design to provide a break in the repetition.

18. Variety
Same subject repeated in a VARIETY of colors.

19. Variety
VARIETY of shapes in a VARIETY of sizes.

21. Elements Principles Line Value Shape Texture Space Color Variety
Balance
Proportion
Rhythm
Movement
Emphasis

22. Value
The art element that describes the darkness or lightness of an object.

23. Rembrandt and Value

26. Balance
Is the principle of design concerned with equalizing visual forces, or elements, in a work of art.

27. Formal Balance
Occurs when equal, or very similar, elements are placed on opposite sides of a central axis.

30. Symmetrical Balance
A special type of formal balance in which two halves of a balanced composition are identical, mirror images of each other.

33. Radial Balance
Occurs when the forces or elements of a design come out (radiate) from a central point.

34. Informal Balance
A balance of unlike objects.

40. Elements Principles Line Value Shape Texture Space Color Variety
Balance
Proportion
Rhythm
Movement
Emphasis

41. Shape A two dimensional area that is defined in some way. Three types:
Geometric
Free-form
Organic

42. Geometric Shapes
Precise shapes that can be described using mathematical formulas.

44. Free-form Shapes
Irregular and uneven shapes.

47. Organic Shapes
Shapes that resemble those found in nature.

49. Proportion
The principle of art concerned with the size relationship of one part to another.

50. Proportion
Foreshortening- is to shorten an object to make it look as if it extends backward into space.

53. Proportion
Hierarchical Proportion- when figures are arranged in a work of art so scale indicates importance.

56. Proportion
Exaggeration and Distortion- deviations from expected, normal proportions.

59. Elements Principles Line Value Shape Texture Space Color Variety
Balance
Proportion
Rhythm
Movement
Emphasis

60. Texture
Texture is the element of art that refers to how things feel, or appear to feel.

64. How to Create Texture
Rubbing-placing paper over the surface and rubbing the top of the paper with crayon or pencil to get the texture.

65. Rhythm
The principle of design that indicates movement by the repetition of elements.

66. Pattern- decorative visual repetition.

70. Elements Principles Line Value Shape Texture Space Color Variety
Balance
Proportion
Rhythm
Movement
Emphasis

71. Space
The element of art that refers to the emptiness or area between, around, above, below, or within objects.

73. Space Positive Space- shapes or forms in a work of art.
Negative Space- empty spaces surrounding shapes and forms.

74. Ways to Create Space Perspective

75. Size

76. Placement

77. Detail

78. Color

79. Movement- the illusion of action or physical change.

84. Elements Principles Line Value Shape Texture Space Color Variety
Balance
Proportion
Rhythm
Movement
Emphasis

85. Color
Reflected light.

86. Color Wheel Primary Colors- red, yellow, blue
Secondary Colors- orange, green, purple

87. Complementary Colors
the colors opposite each other on the color wheel.

88. After Image

93. Emphasis
Makes one part of a work dominant over the other parts.

94. Focal Point

95. Contrast

97. Isolation

98. Location

99. Light