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Elements and Principles of Art
The Elements of Art
The building blocks,
ingredients or tools
of art.
LINE
A mark with length and direction.
A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.
Ansel Adams
Gustave Caillebotte
Davinci
Pablo Picasso
Color
Consists of Hue
(another word for
color), Intensity
(brightness) and
Value (lightness
or darkness).
COLOR
Henri Matisse
Alexander Calder
VALUE The lightness or
darkness of a color.
MC Escher Pablo Picasso
SHAPE
An enclosed
area defined
and
determined
by other art
elements; 2-
dimensional.
Joan Miro
Matisse
A 3-dimensional object; or something in
a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to
be 3-dimensional. For example, a
triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a
shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-
dimensional, is a form.
Jean Arp
Lucien Freud
Claude Monet
.
The distance or area
between, around, above,
below, or within things
Foreground, Middleground
and Background (creates
DEPTH)
Space
Space
Positive (filled with
something) and Negative
(empty areas).
Robert Mapplethorpe Matisse
The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness,
roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be actual or implied.
Texture
Cecil
Buller
The Principles of Art
What we use to organize
the Elements of Art
Principles of Design
• Balance
• Emphasis
• Proportion
• Pattern/Repetition
• Rhythm/Movement
• Unity/Harmony
• Contrast/Variety
Balance is an equal
arrangements of specific
elements within a
composition deliberately
organized to create a feeling of stability.
Elements could include
color, line, shape, or
texture. There are three
types of balance;
symmetrical, asymmetrical
and radial.
Balance
Hawk mask, Nuna peoples, Burkina Faso
Wood, pigment
Symmetrical Design
Symmetrical Balance
Symmetrical
Balance
Joseph Stella, Bridge, 1936, WPA
Federal Arts Project
Symmetrical Balance The parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other.
Leonardo DaVinci
Informal Balance is
created when an
asymmetrical
layout is used.
James Whistler
(American)1834-1903,
Arrangement in Grey
and Black: Portrait of
the Painter's Mother
Asymmetrical Balance
George Seurat, (French) 1859-1891, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
La Grand Jatte, 1884, oil on canvas, 81 x 120 inches
Asymmetrical Balance
Rose window, Notre
Dame Cathedral
Radial Balance starts
from the center of
the design and goes
out. Can you think
of something in
nature that has a
radial balance?
Radial Balance
Rosette from the ancient Temple of Jupiter,
Alexander Calder
What kind of Balance?
How is this painting
balanced?
5
How is this
painting
balanced?
4
Georgia O'Keeffe
Jack-in-the-Pulpit No.
IV, 1930
1
How is this
balanced?
CONTRAST
A large difference
between two things to
create interest and
tension.
Ansel Adams
Salvador Dali
Emphasis is used by artists to create dominance and focus in their work. The focal
point may be the largest, brightest, darkest, or most complex part of the whole, or it
may get special attention because it stands out for some other reason.
At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance, oil
on canvas by Henri de Toulouse-
Lautrec, 1890; in the Philadelphia
Museum of Art.
Emphasis
EMPHASIS
The focal point of an image, or
when one area or thing stand
out the most.
Jim Dine
Gustav Klimt
Ambassadeurs, Poster Toulouse Lautrec
Emphasis
Emphasis is the
created center of
interest, the place in
an artwork where
your eye first lands.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Lady with an Ermine
in Cracow
What is
the
emphasis?
Andrew
Wyeth.
Cristina’s
World,19
48
Emphasis?
Concerned with the
size relationship of one
part to another.
Diego Rivera's "Richest of
California"
Proportion
The comparative
relationship of
one part to
another with
respect to size,
quantity, or
degree; SCALE.
Gustave
Caillebotte
Scale
Spoonbridge and
Cherry, 1988
Stainless steel and
aluminum painted
with polyurethane
enamel
29 ft. 6 in. x 51 ft. 6
in. x 13 ft. 6 in. (9 x
15.7 x 4.1 m)
Minneapolis
Sculpture Garden
What is out of proportion?
What do you
notice about the
proportions of
these figures?
The General And His Family
Artist:Fernando BoteroCountry of
Origin:ColombiaDate of Creation:1977
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refers to a regular
repetition of elements
of art to produce the
look and feel of
movement.
Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-
1944), Broadway Boogie
Woogie.
Rhythm
A sense of visual
or actual motion
in an artwork
created by
repeating an
element of art
MC Escher
Rhythm&Pattern
A regular repetition of
elements to produce the
look and feel of movement.
Marcel
Duchamp
Repetition of a pattern.
Gustav Klimt
Giacomo Balla (Italian, 1871-1958),
Street Light (Lampada — Studio di luce),
1909
Regular
Rhythm
Alternating Rhythm
Progressive
Rhythm
Marcel Duchamp. Nude
Descending a Staircase, No. 2
(1912
UNITY/
Harmony
When all the
elements and
principles
work together
to create a
pleasing
image.
Johannes Vermeer
a way of combining
elements of art to accent
their similarities and bind
the picture parts into a
whole. It is often achieved
through the use of
repetition and simplicity.
Unity and Harmony
Vincent VanGogh
Kazimir Severonic Malevich
(Russian, 1878–1935)
The Knife Grinder (Principle of
Glittering
What gives
this piece
unity?
Thomas Eakins
American, 1844 -
1916
Baby at Play, 1876
oil on canvas
How is this painting balanced?
By Sandra M. Victorino 3
How is this pottery balanced?