art appreciation: principles & elements of art
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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
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