What is Art? Are the objects on your desk art? Discuss why or why not? Take five minutes to discuss with table why or why not. Record your answers on paper and be prepared to share.
Where do we see art?
Design is all around us.
Why do people create art? Seek personal enjoyment and satisfaction. Express personal thoughts and feelings. Communicate with others. Create a more favorable environment. Make others see things more clearly Provide us with new visual experiences. Record a time, place, person, or object. Commemorate important people or events. Reinforce cultural ties and traditions. Seek to affect social change Tell stories. Adorn themselves Worship. Create an illusion. Predict the future or remember the past. Earn livelihood. Do something no one else can (or has yet done). Amuse themselves (or make us laugh). Make the ordinary extraordinary, the familiar strange. Increase our global understanding
Art One Essential Question: How do we communicate through art?
The Elements and Principles Of Design A review for Art One and Art Two
The elements of art are like the letters of the alphabet. They are the building blocks of the language of art. Once you know how to use them you can create works that will communicate something to the viewer.
elements can be thought in terms of language or music. The way you arrange the elements can be thought in terms of language or music. The way you arrange words to create sentences or notes to create songs is important.
The Principles of Design are learned to help artists arrange art elements in their Artwork to create the best work possible.
What element of art do you see here?
As early as 30,000 BC man has created art using line to depict objects or things.
Frank Stella -------What element of art is evident in this painting?
Shape – element of ARt
FORM- three dimensional
Forms can be viewed from several angles.
Value refers to light and Dark VALUE- the element of art which allows us to show form on two dimensions
Value can be seen in color and help us read shapes in paintings.
COLOR
Opposites on the color wheel can create contrast.
TEXTURE
Implied texture Versus Real Texture
Space- use of perspective to show depth
The principles of design are used to help artists arrange the elements of art into a composition that works.
Contrast- What is Contrast?
Complementary colors Create contrast
Pattern Pattern uses the art elements in planned or random repetitions.
Rhythm is the repetition of visual movement. Variety keeps it exciting.
Movement- directs viewer through the work to focal area.
Movement can be directed along lines.
How does Renoir move your eye through this painting?
Unity – when an artwork feels complete and the artist uses the elements in a cohesive way.
Balance- refers to the visual weight of the elements Balance can be symmetrical, Asymmetrical, or radial Is this symmetrical or asymmetrical?
Asymmetrical Balance
Radial Balance
Refers to focal point or area of interest. Emphasis Refers to focal point or area of interest.