1. The Elements and Principles of Art

2. The building blocks or ingredients of art.
The Elements of Art
The building blocks or ingredients of art.

3. LINE A mark with length and direction.
A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.
Gustave Caillebotte
Ansel Adams

4. Pablo Picasso

6. COLOUR It is the reflected light that is perceived through the brain.
Alexander Calder
Consists of Hue (another word for colour), Intensity (brightness) and Value (lightness or darkness).
It is the reflected light that is perceived through the brain.
Henri Matisse

7. VALUE The lightness or darkness of a colour.
Values represent the tonal range between black and white.
Pablo Picasso
MC Escher

10. SHAPE
An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional.
Joan Miro

11. Roy Lichtenstein

14. FORM
For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, is a form.
A 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional.
Jean Arp
Lucien Freud

16. S P A C E
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
Background
Middleground
Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas).
Foreground
Claude Monet

17. TEXTURE
The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be real (surface of sculpture) or implied (drawn tree bark, prickly cactus).

18. Cecil Buller

21. The strategies we use to organize the Elements of Art,
The Principles of Art
The strategies we use to organize the Elements of Art,
or the tools to make art.

22. BALANCE
The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work.
Alexander Calder

23. Formal, simple, less interesting, stable.
Symmetrical Balance
The parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other.
Same on both sides.
Formal, simple, less interesting, stable.
Leonardo DaVinci

24. Informal, more complex, interesting
Asymmetrical Balance
When one side of a composition does not reflect the design of the other.
Informal, more complex, interesting
James Whistler

25. Radial Balance
Balanced from the centre outward

26. What type of balance is this?

27. And this?

28. What about this?

29. EMPHASIS
The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most.
May be achieved through:
Proportion
Colour intensity
Location
Converging lines
Contrast
What attracts the viewer’s eye first.
Jim Dine
Gustav Klimt

31. RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM
and MOVEMENT
A regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement.
Directs the viewer’s eye to follow a continuous path around the composition
Marcel Duchamp

32. How is rhythm and movement achieved here?

33. Vincent VanGogh

34. Visual harmony
UNITY
When all the elements and principles work together to create a pleasing image.
Like invisible glue that joins all the separate parts so they belong together in one successful composition.
Johannes Vermeer

36. The use of differences and change to increase the visual interest of the work.
VARIETY
Diversity of elements
Marc Chagall

39. PROPORTION
The relationship between Elements of varying sizes in a composition.
Gustave Caillebotte