Elements of Art
Elements of Art
The building blocks or ingredients of art. They structure and carry the work.
Elements of Art
Line
Color
Value
Shape
Form
Space
Texture
LINE
A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.
Pablo Picasso
LINE
May be vertical, horizontal or diagonal, curved, straight, zigzag, or show emotion.
LINE
Contour lines- outline the edges of forms or shapes
Gestural lines- indicate action and physical movement
LINE
Consists of Hue (another word for color), Value (lightness or darkness) and Intensity (brightness).
Henri Matisse Alexander Calder
COLOR
Color has three properties:
1. HUE: this is the name of the colors
2. VALUE: refers to the lightness or darkness of a hue.
3. INTENSITY: refers to the purity of the hue (called “chroma”)
COLOR
Neutral ColorsThese colors are made by adding a complimentary color (opposite on the color wheel) to a hue. Neutralized hues are called tones.
Tints – adding the color white to lighten a hue
Shades – adding black to darken a hue
Shades- adding the color black.
Tints and Shades
Warm and Cool ColorsWarm – red, orange, yellow
Cool – green, blue, violet
The lightness or darkness of a color.
MC Escher Pablo Picasso
VALUE
High Range in Value Low Range in Value
VALUE
An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional.
Joan Miro
SHAPE
SHAPEShapes can be geometric or organic.
GEOMETRIC: square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, circle, cone
ORGANIC: free form shapes, shapes in nature; for example: leaves, trees, animals
Organic vs. Geometric
SHAPE
A 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional.
Jean ArpLucien Freud
FORM
Shows an object in space, the mass or positive space it occupies.
For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, is a form.
FORM
Form can be 2DForm can be 3D
FORM
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
Foreground, Middleground and Background (creates DEPTH)
SPACE
Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas)
SPACE
The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc.
TEXTURE
TEXTURE
Textures may be actual or implied.
Actual – texture that you can feel with your sense of touch
Implied – texture that has been simulated in drawing and
painting on a smooth surface
TEXTURE
ART CARD HOMEWORKOn one side of your art cards should be the definitions for the Elements of Art. Your homework is to find works of art that shows each definition… • Print them in color• Glue them to the card• Include the artist’s name, title of the
work, and the date is was created
THIS IS DUE ON….4AC: FRIDAY, 9/26 & 1BD: MONDAY, 9/29
You should now have7 Elements of Art Cards to save in your Art Card Envelope!
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