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 Arp Lucien 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 show 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 createdTHIS IS DUE AT THE START OF NEXT

CLASS!!!

Links to help you get started…http://artistsinspireartists.com/painting/best-modern-paintings-last-100-years

https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/publication_pdf/3177/MoMAHighlights13_PREVIEW.pdf?1364330927

http://totallyhistory.com/art-history/famous-paintings/

http://www.topofart.com/top_100_art_reproductions.php

http://www.historyofpainters.com/paintings.htm

http://totallyhistory.com/art-history/famous-artists/

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/mostpopular.html

http://the-artists.org/

You should now have7 Elements of Art Cards to save in your Art Card Envelope!