1. List AND define the seven elements of art.
Define the term ELEMENTS OF ART.
What questions do you have about the elements of art?

2. LINE
A mark on a surface that describes shape or an outline. It can create texture, value, or shapes. It can be thick or thin.
SHAPE
A 2-dimensional (flat) figure created when actual or implied lines surround a space and have two dimensions: Length and Width. Shapes can be geometric or organic.
FORM
A 3-dimensional object having volume or thickness. It can be measured by height, width, and depth. Forms can be viewed from many angles. The 3D effect can be implied through the element of VALUE with the use of light and shading techniques.
VALUE
The degree of light and dark in a design. It’s the contrast between black and white and all of the tones in-between Value can be used with color as well.

3. Created when light is reflected off of a surface.
SPACE
The empty or open area between, around, above, below, and within objects. It also shows the illusion of depth on the 2-D picture plane. It can be positive or negative.
TEXTURE
The tactile quality of a surface, such as rough, smooth, sticky, soft, fuzzy, or slick. It can also be actual or implied.
COLOR
Created when light is reflected off of a surface.
We see the reflected light and our eyes convert it to color.

4. the building blocks of art.
ELEMENTS OF ART:
the building blocks of art.

5. Please silently copy the following definitions in your note book
Please silently copy the following definitions in your note book. Raise your hand If you have a question.

6. The arrangement and placement of the parts that make up the image.
COMPOSITION
The arrangement and placement of the parts that make up the image.

7. COMPOSITION:
Foreground
Middle ground
Background
These are elements of composition having to do with the arrangement and placement of objects in the artwork.

8. FOREGROUND: Area in the drawing that seems to be the closest to the viewer.
MIDDLEGROUND: The middle area in a drawing, between the foreground and the background.
BACKGROUND: The area furthest away in a landscape or the area around the subject matter in a drawing.

10. The way the elements are arranged and organized in a composition.
Principles of Design
The way the elements are arranged and organized in a composition.

11. UNITY
Occurs when all the elements work together to communicate ideas or feelings.
VARIETY
Is achieved by introducing differences in the elements of a composition. Variety is a means of avoiding monotony and increasing visual interest in a composition.

12. This element or form is said to be dominant in the composition.
Emphasis
Occurs when one element of an artwork, or a combination of elements, attracts more visual interest than anything else in the composition.
This element or form is said to be dominant in the composition.

13. Rhythm
Artists create visual rhythm when they repeat specific elements (a line, shape,) alternate several elements, or a use of a progression in which an element gradually changes in size, shape, position or color.
Movement
Rhythm creates a feeling of movement within an artwork. The way your eye moves through the composition.

14. Pattern
Repeating lines, shapes, or other elements in a recognizable way over the surface of an area. They are two-dimensional and decorative.
Contrast
Refers to a way of combining the elements so that there is a stressing difference between those elements. light vs dark; rough vs smooth.

15. Occurs when the visual weight in an artwork feels equally distributed.
BALANCE
Occurs when the visual weight in an artwork feels equally distributed.
Formal Balance (Symmetrical Balance): mirror image composition. The elements are the exact same on both sides.
Informal Balance (Asymmetrical Balance): The composition remains balanced, but the elements are different on both sides.
Radial Balance: The elements radiate from a central point in the composition.

16. How do the Principles of Design relate to the elements of art?

17. The elements are the building blocks of art.
The Principals are the organizing ideas.

18. UNITY
Occurs when all the elements work together to communicate ideas or feelings.

19. Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, Unified artworks seem to be well arranged into a successful whole. When you first glance at this picture, which are you more aware of, the parts, or the entire form?

21. What Purpose of ART do you think this artwork was created for?
This artwork was probably once worn in a ceremonial dance, held at the beginning of the tear, to exorcise evil.
How does the third eye at the top help unify the sculptural form?
Tchoijin Lamyn Sum “Tsam”
Dance Mask 19th Century.

22. VARIETY
Is achieved by introducing differences in the elements of a composition. Variety is a means of avoiding monotony and increasing visual interest in a composition.

23. Andy Warhol, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962
What alternating arrangement provides a little variety in this composition?
Andy Warhol, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962

24. This element or form is said to be dominant in the composition.
Emphasis
Occurs when one element of an artwork, or a combination of elements, attracts more visual interest than anything else in the composition.
This element or form is said to be dominant in the composition.
UNITY

25. How has the artist created emphasis in this piece? PLACEMEN T
John Trumbull, The Surrender of Lord Cornwalls, 1871
How has the artist created emphasis in this piece?
PLACEMEN T

26. How has the artist created emphasis in this piece? SIZE
Rene Magritte, Listening Room
How has the artist created emphasis in this piece?
SIZE

27. How has the artist created emphasis in this piece?
Artist Unknown
How has the artist created emphasis in this piece?
COLOR

28. What are THREE ways artist can show emphasis in their work?
1. Size
2. Placement
3. COLOR

29. Rhythm
Artists create visual rhythm when they repeat specific elements (a line, shape,) alternate several elements, or a use of a progression in which an element gradually changes in size, shape, position or color.
Movement
Rhythm creates a feeling of movement within an artwork. The way your eye moves through the composition.

30. Where does the movement seem to lead?
This artist used alternating shapes and color to create rhythm and movement.
Where does the movement seem to lead?
John Biggers, Shotguns, 4th Ward, 1987

31. What aesthetic experience do you get when you look at this work?
Munch’s works were concerned with anxiety, loneliness, tragedy, and death. How does rhythmic movement communicate the mood this this painting?
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893

32. Paul Cezanne, Still life with Peppermint Bottle, 1894

33. Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity and Space, 1913
IMPLIED MOVEMENT
To fully enjoy implied movement in a sculpture, you need to walk around it. Imagine how your view of this sculpture would change as you moved around it.
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity and Space, 1913

34. Creating the illusion of movement through nonobjective artworks.
OPTICAL MOVEMENT
Creating the illusion of movement through nonobjective artworks.
Vasarely is considered the leaser of the Op Art movement in America. Op Art began in the early 1980s. Why do we call movement in compositions like this optical rather than implied or real?
Victor Vasarely, Banya, 1964

35. Pattern
Repeating lines, shapes, or other elements in a recognizable way over the surface of an area. They are two-dimensional and decorative.

36. How many different patterns can you count in this piece?
Henri Matisse, Woman in a Purple Coat, 1937

37. Contrast
Refers to a way of combining the elements so that there is a stressing difference between those elements. light vs dark; rough vs smooth.

38. VALUE CONTRAST

39. VALUE CONTRAST

40. TEXTURE CONTRAST

41. SHAPE CONTRAST

42. Occurs when the visual weight in an artwork feels equally distributed.
BALANCE
Occurs when the visual weight in an artwork feels equally distributed.
Formal Balance (Symmetrical Balance): mirror image composition. The elements are the exact same on both sides.
Informal Balance (Asymmetrical Balance): The composition remains balanced, but the elements are different on both sides.
Radial Balance: The elements radiate from a central point in the composition.

43. ASYMMETRICAL

44. Effigy Incense Burner, Maya, Early Classic Period, c.400 -550
FORMAL/SYMMETRICAL
Effigy Incense Burner, Maya, Early Classic Period, c

46. Approximate Balance (like symmetrical balance)
While the composition is not a mirror image,
The composition has the same elements on both sides.

47. RADIAL BALANCE
Flickr.com image

48. Notice how this illuminated page employs both geometric and organic forms.
How has this page’s balance arrangement been varied in the areas outside the rosette?
India, Rosette,

49. Salvador Dali, Woman With Head a of Roses, 1935
Identify the dominant ELEMENT in this painting. Explain why it is dominant.
Identify the dominant PRINCIPLE in this painting. Explain why it is dominant.
Salvador Dali, Woman With Head a of Roses, 1935