1. Elements and Principles of Design
Line
Shape
Form
Color
Value
Texture
Space
Principles:
Balance
Emphasis & Focal Point
Contrast
Movement
Variety
Pattern & Repetition
Unity
Harmony/Gestalt

2. Line
A line is defined as a mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface. A line can vary in length, width, direction, curvature, and color.
Jasper Johns, 0-9 (continuous line)
Gesture drawing

3. line
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm

4. line
Roy Lichtenstein, Brushstroke, 1965

5. line
Morris Louis, Beta Kappa 1961

6. Matisse, from the series “Jazz”
Shape & Form
Shape is an enclosed space defined by other elements of art. Shape is 2-Dimensional while form is 3-dimensional
Shape can be
Geometric or Organic
Fernana Leger, The City
Matisse, from the series “Jazz”

7. shape Are these shapes Geometric or Organic?
Edward Steichen, Le Tournesol (Sunflower) 1920

8. form
David Smith, Wandering Rocks

9. form
Edward Hopper, the Lighthouse at Two Lights

10. Color Is an element of art with three properties
1) Hue, the name of the color, e.g. red, yellow, etc. 2) Intensity or the purity and strength of the color 3) Value, or the lightness or darkness of the color
Jasper Johns, Target
(primary colors)
Delauney

11. Color Mark Rothko, Red, Orange, Tan and Purple
Picasso, the Old Guitarist

12. Andre Derain, Mountains at Coullioure, 1905
Color
Andre Derain, Mountains at Coullioure, 1905

13. Kandinsky, Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle), 1913
Color
Kandinsky, Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle), 1913

14. Color
Van Gogh, Night Cafe

15. Value is an especially important element in works of art
An element of art that refers to luminance or luminosity – the lightness or darkness of a color.
Value is an especially important element in works of art
when color is absent. This is particularly likely with drawings, printmaking, and photographs
Kathe Kollwitz,
Self portrait

16. Value Chuck Close (made w/ thumbprints!) Edward Weston, Pepper
(photograph)

17. Texture
Texture refers to the surface quality or "feel" of an object, such as roughness, smoothness, or softness. Actual texture can be felt while simulated textures are implied by the way the artist renders the surface area
Oppenheim
Fur-lined cup

18. Texture Actual and Implied
Albrecht Durer
Rhinocerus
Golsdworthy

19. Space
Space is the empty or open area between, around, above, below, or within objects. Shapes and forms are made by the space around and within them. Space is often called three-dimensional or two- dimensional. Positive space is filled by a shape or form. Negative space surrounds a shape or form.

20. Space Positive/Negative Space
MC Escher

21. Perugino, Delivery of the Keys
Space
Depth
Perugino, Delivery of the Keys

22. De Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
Space
Depth
De Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street

23. Balance Balance is a sense of stability in the body of work.
Balance can be symmetrical (formal) or assymmetrical (informal)
Wayne Thiebaud, Around the Cake (formal balance)

24. Edgar Degas (informal balance)

25. Emphasis & Focal Point
Emphasis - Any forcefulness that gives importance to some feature or features of an artwork; something singled out, stressed, or drawn attention to by means of contrast, anomaly, or counterpoint Focal Point = portion of an artwork's composition on which interest or attention centers
David Hockney

26. Emphasis & Focal Point
Barbara Kruger
Rene Magritte

27. Contrast A large difference between two things,
such as light and shadow, color and black/white
Andy Warhol

28. David, the Death of Marat
Contrast
David, the Death of Marat

29. Edward Munch, the Scream
Movement
Movement adds excitement to your work by showing action and directing the viewers eye throughout the picture plane.
Edward Munch, the Scream

30. Movement Umberto Boccioni, Unique forms of continuity in space
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending Staircase

31. Variety When elements are changed in scale, color, or form.
Stuart Davis
Andy Warhol

32. Arts and Crafts Movement
Pattern & Repetition
Involves multiples of the same element. Repeated elements can vary in size, color, or axis placement. Repeated elements can create a pattern. The use of repetition may be applied to all Visual Elements. Motion can be created by repetition.
William Morris
Arts and Crafts Movement

33. Chuck Close, Self Portrait, detail
Pattern & Repetition
Chuck Close, Self Portrait, detail

34. Unity & Harmony
The quality of wholeness or oneness (Gestalt) that is achieved through the effective use of the elements and principles of design.
Claude Monet
Haystacks

35. Unity
Cezanne
Wayne Theibaud

36. Unity
Van Gogh

37. Identify the elements & principles in the following:

48. Your Assignment:
Work on handout with the book “Art Fundamentals”
Create 12 small artworks (6 elements, 6 principles) and
“visually define” them. Draw a 3 inch x 3 inch square - using a ruler -
And create small representations of each of the elements and
Principles
- you may use any media on hand -