the elements of art. the building blocks of art. the elements of art are those components that one...
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The Elements of Art
The Elements of Art
The building blocks of art.
The elements of art are those components that one combines with principles of design to construct art.
LINE
Ansel Adams Gustave Caillebotte
A mark with length and direction.
A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.
Pablo Picasso
LINES…LINES…
COLOR
Henri Matisse
Alexander Calder
COLOR Consists of: Hue -another word for color Intensity - the brightness or dullness of a shade or color Value - lightness or darkness of a shade or color
VALUE
MC Escher Pablo Picasso
VALUE: The lightness or darkness of
a shade or color.
LINES… andVALUES…LINES… andVALUES…
Pablo Picasso
SHAPE
Joan Miro
An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; Shapes are limited to two dimensions: length and width.
Geometric shapes - circles, rectangles, squares, triangles and so on - have the clear edges one achieves when using tools to create them.
William Conger
Organic shapes have natural, less well-defined edges, for example an amoeba, a leaf, or a cloud.
LINES…VALUES…and SHAPES
Jean Arp Lucien Freud
Sculpture is an example of “real” form FORM
This painting is an example of “implied” form
FORM is a 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional.
For example, this circle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, But the sphere, which is 3-dimensional, is a form. Form canBe real or implied.
Claude Monet
S P A C E
The development of foreground, middleground, and backgroundis one way to create DEPTH.
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things. space in a composition
Positive space is the area of a composition that is filled with something- the objects. Negative space is the area which surrounds the objects in a composition or the empty areas.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Overlapping is a technique thatcan be used to develop space in a composition.
TEXTURETEXTURE
The surface quality of an object, smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be actual or implied.
Cecil Buller