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 AdamsGustave Caillebotte A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.
Pablo Picasso LINES…
COLORCOLOR 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
VALUEVALUE MC Escher Pablo Picasso
VALUE: The lightness or darkness of a shade or color. LINES… and VALUES… LINES… and VALUES… 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 can Be 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 that can be used to develop space in a composition.
TEXTURE The surface quality of an object, smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be actual or implied.
Cecil Buller