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. The Seven Elements of Art
LINE
SHAPE
FORM
VALUE
COLOR
TEXTURE
SPACE

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

5. FIVE BASIC LINES HORIZONTAL- run parallel to the ground
VERTICAL-run up and down
DIAGONAL-slant
CURVED-change direction gradually
ZIGZAG-combination of diagonal lines that change direction

6. Ansel Adams

7. LINE QUALITY Width-thick or thin Texture-rough or smooth
Length- long or short

8. Pablo Picasso

9. Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, 1881

10. SHAPE An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements;
2-dimensional, flat, having length and width.
Joan Miro

11. GEOMETRIC SHAPES-based in math
The Three Musicians, 1921, Pablo Picasso
GEOMETRIC SHAPES-based in math

12. ORGANIC SHAPES- based in nature
The Knife Thrower, 1947, Henri Matisse
ORGANIC SHAPES- based in nature

13. FORM
A 3-dimensional object; or in 2-dimensional artwork it appears to be 3-dimensional. It shows volume. It has length, width and depth.
For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, is a form.
Jean Arp

14. Lucien Freud
The Bath, 1891,
Mary Cassatt

15. VALUE The lightness or darkness of a black and white or color.
Pablo Picasso
MC Escher

16. Migrant Worker, Nipomo California, 1936, Dorthea Lange
Violin and Pitcher, 1910,
Georges Braque

17. COLOR
Consists of Hue (another word for color), Intensity (brightness/dullness) and Value (lightness or darkness).
Alexander Calder
Henri Matisse

18. Gustave Caillebotte

19. TEXTURE
The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be actual or implied.

20. Illustration to Edgae Allen Poe’s, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1919,
Harry Clarke

21. Cecil Buller

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

23. The School of Athens, 1509, Raphael
One-Point Perspective-creates deep space in an artwork.

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

25. THE ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES
WORK HAND AND HAND WHEN CREATING ARTWORK!!!!

26. Principles of Art PATTERN RHYTHM MOVEMENT BALANCE CONTRAST EMPHASIS
UNITY

27. PATTERN and Repetition
Gustav Klimt
The repeating of an object or symbol. It can be planned or random repetitions.

28. RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM RHYTHM
A regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement.
Marcel Duchamp

29. MOVEMENT
The path the viewer’s eye takes through the artwork, often to focal areas.

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

31. Symmetrical Balance
The parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other.
Leonardo DaVinci

32. Asymmetrical Balance
When one side of a composition does not reflect the design of the other.
James Whistler

33. RADIAL
Symmetrical Design which is circular.

34. CONTRAST
A large difference between two things to create interest and tension.
Ansel Adams
Salvador Dali

35. EMPHASIS
The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most.
Jim Dine
Gustav Klimt

36. Vincent VanGogh

37. UNITY
When all the elements and principles work together to create a pleasing image.
Johannes Vermeer