What is ?ART

What is ART?• Unique expression of an idea• Experience or feeling in a well-

designed visual form• All objects created for visual

appeal

Elements of ArtElements of Art•Basic visual symbols Basic visual symbols in the language of art.in the language of art.

•Artists use elements Artists use elements to express their ideas.to express their ideas.

Arrangement in Grey and Black (Whistler’s Mother)James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Dame Barbara HepworthMother & Child

Object, Fur BreakfastMeret Oppenheim

Chiffres et Constellations Joan

Miro

Venus de MiloGreek 120-130 B.C.

Mark RothkoUntitled, 1949

Proportions of the Human Figure Leonardo da Vinci

Elements of Art

Texture Color Value Shape Form Space

Line

Line• The distance between two

points.• A mark made on a surface

by some point.–Pencil mark on paper

–Finger marks on clay–Brush mark on canvas

A Dancer Adjusting a ShoeEdgar Degas

Self PortraitVincent Van GoghAnasazi Pottery

Texture• The way something feels or appears to

feel if you could touch it.

• Rough & Smooth

• Matte & Shiny

• Soft & Hard

• Furry & Scaley

Little Ballerina Dancer Fourteen Years OldEdgar Degas

Domain of ArnheimRene Magritte

COLORElement made up of 3 QUALITIES:

•Hue•Value•Intensity

Monkey PuzzleKeith Haring

Squares with Concentric RingsWassily Kandinsky

COLORElement made up of 3 QUALITIES:

Hue•name of a color

Monkey PuzzleKeith Haring

Squares with Concentric RingsWassily Kandinsky

COLORElement made up of 3 QUALITIES:

Value•Lights & darks

Monkey PuzzleKeith Haring

Squares with Concentric RingsWassily Kandinsky

COLORElement made up of 3 QUALITIES:

Intensity•Brightness or

dullness of a color

Monkey PuzzleKeith Haring

Squares with Concentric RingsWassily Kandinsky

VALUE• Lights & Darks

PietaMichelangelo BuonarotiJack in the Pulpit

Georgia O’Keeffe

Hand with SphereM.C. Escher

Shape• Area set off by one or more of the

elements of art. •line, texture, color, value, & shape

• Shapes are flat and have height & width (2D).

Types of Shapes

• Geometric

Composition with Blue Plane

Piet Mondrian

• Biomorphic (organic)

•Precise shapes from math•Shapes from nature

Form• 3-Dimensional

objects

DavidMichelangelo Buonarroti

The ThinkerAuguste Rodin

•Forms have height, width, & depth.

Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci

Space

•Positive Space•Negative Space

• Space an object takes up•Space around or through an objectChristina’s World

Andrew Wyeth

Space

Reclining Figures,Angles

Henry Moore

The Japanese FootbridgeClaude Monet

American GothicGrant Wood

People and Dog in the SunJoan Miro

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2Marcel Duchamp

Broadway Boogie WoogiePiet Mondrian

Nike of SamothraceThe Winged Victory

220-190 B.C.

Principles of Art

EmphasisContrast Harmony Balance Variety Movement

Repetition

RhythmCampbell’s Soup

Andy WarholSelf Portrait with Monkey

Frida Kahlo Proportion

Portrait with a Green Stripe (Madame MatisseHenri Matisse

Pattern

AlomVictor Vasarely

RepetitionRepetition

• Something repeated over & over again

MarilynAndy Warhol

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Angeli LandenteWiliam Morris

The KissGustav Klimt

Patterns

A decorative designUsually of a repeated figure or motif

The ScreamEdvard Munch

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The Creation of AdamMichelangelo buonarroti

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Retroactive IRobert

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CONTRAST

Girl with Hair RibonRoy Lichtenstein

Extreme differences in the elements of art

Garden at GivernyClaude MonetThe Artist’s Garden at GivernyClaude Monet

• Unity• Combining similar elements in a

work of art

Water LiliesClaude Monet

The Lady of ShalottJohn William WaterhouseThe Boating

PartyAuguste Renoir

Harmony

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande JatteGeorges Seurat

The Birth of VenusSandro Botticelli

African MasksTwo halves are identical

Grace Jones

Andy Warhol

Little SpiderAlexander Calder

ASSYMETRICAL BALANCE

Apparent weight

Balances Compositio

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• Lots of different elements combined in a work of art

Weeping WomanPablo Picasso

V A R I E T Y

Royal Tide VLouise Nevelson

The Three MusiciansPablo Picasso

People and Dog in the SunJoan Miro

• Lots of different elements combined in a work of art

Alexander Calder

Ballet MontageEdgar Degas

Ballet MontageEdgar Degas

Movement

The look and feel of action

The Starry NightVincent van Gogh

Ballet MontageEdgar Degas

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JazzHenri Matisse

Yellow, Red, BlueWassily Kandinsky

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The BathMary

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Proportion

Proportions of the Human FigureLeonardo da Vinci

Size relationships of one part to another

Surrounded IslandsChristo and Jeanne-Claude

The Last SupperLeonardo da Vinci