Elements of Art

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Elements of Art
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Line

• is the path of a moving point.
• Lines define the edges of shapes and forms.  
• There are many kinds of line

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Implied
Hay-stacks by Claude Monet
Actual

• Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue by Piet
  Mondrian

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Geometric
Organic
Portrait of Picasso by Juan Gris
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Shape

• is an area enclosed by line.
• Shape is 2 dimensional and can be geometric or
  organic.

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Geometric Organic

• Cubist Still Life by Roy Lichtenstein
  The Potato by Joan Miro

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Value

• is the lightness or darkness of a surface. It is
  often referred to when shading, but value is also
  important in the study of color

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Simeons Lobgesang by Rembrandt
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Form

• Forms are 3-Dimensional. They occupy space or
  give the illusion that they occupy the space

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Vega-Nor by Victor Vasarely
Virgin Mary by Salvador Dali
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Color

• Color is the most expressive element of art and
  is seen by the way light reflects off a surface.
• One refers to color in terms of hue (color
  name) value (lightness or darkness of a
  color) and chroma (intensity of a color)
• Color has many characteristics

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Temperature

• Cool Warm

Red Boat by Claude Monet
The Old Mill by Vincent Van Gogh
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Emotion
The Guitar Player by Pablo Picasso
Composition IX by Vassily Kandinsky
The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Texture

• is the actual surface feel of an area or the
  simulated appearance of roughness, smoothness or
  many others.
• Implied Actual

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Summer by Don Eddy
Portrait of Gisze by Hans Holbein
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Space

• Space is the illusion of objects having depth on
  the 2-dimensional surface.
• In art we talk in terms of positive and negative
  space
• Linear and aerial perspective are used to create
  this illusion

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Principles of Art
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Contrast

• Contrast is the juxtaposition of opposing
  elements.
• For example
• Opposite colors on the color wheel - red/green,
  blue / orange, etc.
• Contrast in tone or value - light/dark
• Contrast in direction - horizontal/vertical

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Unity

• is the feeling that everything in the work of
  art works together and looks like it fits.

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Rhythm

• Visual rhythm makes you think of the rhythms you
  hear in music or dance. Artists create visual
  rhythm by repeating art elements and creating
  patterns.

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Balance

• is how artists create visual weight

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Emphasis

• Artists use emphasis to
• make certain parts of
• their artwork stand out
• and grab your attention.
• The center of interest, or focal point, is the
  place the artist draws your eye to first.

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Movement

• is a visual flow through the composition. It can
  be the suggestion of motion in a design as you
  move from object to object by way of placement
  and position. 

Movement does NOT mean that the artwork
illustrates an action that is happening!
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Pattern

• is the repetition of visual elements such as
  line, color, shape, texture, and/or value to
  unify the total effect of a work of art as well
  as create rhythm.