Art Appreciation

Professor Paige PraterT, R, 9:30-10:20AM

10 ELEMENTS of Art:

1. Color 2. Form 3. Line4. Mass5. Shape6. Space7. Texture8. Time/Motion9. Value10. Volume

Color

Important Color Vocabulary

• Hue• Value• Tint• Shade• Primary• Secondary• Complementary• Neutral

VALUE: lights & darks

Color Wheel

Saturation

Monochromatic Color

Mark Tansey. Picasso and Braque, 1992. Oil on canvas. 5’4” x 7’

Complementary Color

Andre’ Derain. The Turning Road, L’Estaque, 1906. Oil on canvas, 4’3” x6’4’3/4 . Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.

Analagous Color

Analagous Color

Mary Cassat, The Boating Party, 1893-94. Oil on canvas. 35 3/8 x 46 1/8”, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Art

Optical Color:Pointillism

Georges Seurat, The Circus (detail of it), 1890-91, Oil on canvas.

Color in Print: different color wheel!

CMY + K (key, which equals black)= CMYK!

Color in Electronics: different, too!

Charles Csuri, Wondrous Spring, 1992. Computer image, 4’x 5’5”.

Color & Chromotherapy

• “I have tried to express with red and green the terrible passions of human nature.” –Van Gogh

• Which painting was he referring to?• Do you think he captured passion? Why or why

not?

SHAPE vs. FORM

• 2D – two-dimensional = shape (think FLAT!)• 3D – three-dimensional = form (think

TACTILE!)

Three-dimensional:

• FORM (think TACTILE!)-VOLUME = amount of SPACE-MASS = solid-TEXTURE = looks tangible

Line

Mel Bochner, Vertigo, 1982. Charcoal, conte’ crayon, and pastel on canvas, 9’x6’2”. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

Line

• Regular/irregular• Actual/implied• Vertical/Horizontal/Diagonal

Regular/Irregular LINE

Andre Masson, Automatic Drawing, 1925-6. Ink on paper, 12 x91/2”. Muse’e National d’Art Moderne. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

Actual/Implied LINE

Vertical/Horizontal/Diagonal LINE

TIME/MOTION

Bernini. Apollo and Daphne, 1622-24. Giacomo Balla. Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912.

10 PRINCIPLES of Art

1. Balance2. Contrast3. Emphasis4. Focal Point5. Pattern6. Proportion7. Rhythm8. Scale 9. Unity10. Variety