1. The Elements and Principles of Art

2. The Elements of Art The building blocks or ingredients of art.

3. LINE A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point. It has: contour, character, direction Ansel AdamsGustave Caillebotte

4. Pablo Picasso

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

6. VALUEVALUE The range from light to dark. It has: contrast. MC Escher Pablo Picasso

7. Contrast Low contrast High contrast

8. Value Range

9. SHAPE A 2-dimensional area defined or enclosed by line or other elements of art. It can be geometric or organic Joan Miro

11. Organic Shapes

13. Gustave Caillebotte

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

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

16. TEXTURE The way something feels or the way something appears to feel. Its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be actual or implied.

17. Cecil Buller

18. The Principles of Design What we use to organize the Elements of Art, or the tools to make art.

19. BALANCEBALANCE The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of equal visual weight in an artwork. Alexander Calder

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

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

22. EMPH A SIS Drawing attention to certain areas or elements in a work of art. The focal point of an image. Jim DineGustav Klimt

23. CONTRAST A large difference between two things to create interest and tension. Ansel Adams Salvador Dali Tension: A balanced relationship between very opposite things. How opposite things interplay in artwork.

24. Movement: The visual suggestion of action in an artwork.

25. Vincent VanGogh

26. RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM A regular repetition of patterns, elements or movement in an artwork. Marcel Duchamp

27. PATTERN The repetition of shapes, lines or colors over and over again. Repetition of a design. Gustav Klimt

28. UNITY How all the components of a work of art work together to produce a whole. Pleasing to the eye. Johannes Vermeer

29. VARIETYVARIETY The use of differences and change to increase the visual interest of the work. Marc Chagall

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