Line, Shape, and ColorElements or art

Line is... a mark with greater length than width. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; straight or curved; thick or thin.

LineLine also has the ability to show emotion. Depending on the intensity, sharpness, and softness of a line it show how and artist was feeling at that time.

Franz Jozef Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s.

LinesHow large is this painting? What kind of lines are used in the paints?What kinds of action do you think the artist was making? What does this painting make you feel? Does it take your whole self to be an artist?

LinesHow large is this painting? What kind of lines are used in the paints?What kinds of action do you think the artist was making? What does this painting make you feel? Does it take your whole self to be an artist?

By: Anges Cecile- Explsione

a closed line. Shape can be geometric, like squares and circles; or organic, like free-form and natural shapes . Shapes are flat and can express length and width.

Shape is..

Shapes-Shapes can also symbolize different emotions and meanings. Here are a few.

● Life● Motion ● Female● Begining● Cosmos● Unity● Fullness

Shapes● Honor● Unity● Structure ● Sacred ● Choice

● Expansion● Contraction● Femininity● Journey ● Creativity

Shapes● Earth● Structure● Masculinity ● Order

● Collaboration● Illumination● Creation● Manifestation

Color is...light reflected off of objects. Color has three main characteristics; Hue, Value, and intensity.

Hue: the name of the color

Red Yellow Blue

Value: How light or dark it is

Light

Dark

Intensity: how bright or dull it is

ColorPrimary Colors:are the only true colors. All other colors are mixes of primary colors:

Secondary Colors:are two primary colors mix together.

ColorTertiary Colors:are made by mixing a primary and a secondary color. examples yellow-orange, red-orange, blue-violet, red-violet, blue-green, and yellow-green.

Complementary Colors:are located across from each other on the color wheel. Complementary pairs contrast because they share no common colors. When mix together the make brown.

Color meaning