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The Elements of Design The Design Elements are the 7 basic building blocks of visual art. You can’t make art without using at least one.
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Line Shape ColorColor Texture Value Space The Elements of Design Form
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1. Line Def: A symbolic mark made to represent the separation of two areas in space.
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A. Contour Line A contour line is used to draw the outside edge of objects. Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Igor Stravinsky. 1920.
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B. Actual Line Barnett Newman, Dionysius, 1944, 67x49in.
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Caravaggio The Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600
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C. Implied Line Not really there but guide the eye or organize the image Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935, 48x48 in. Note lines implied by directional gazes
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Le déjeuner des canotiers, 1880–1881 Oil on canvas, 129.5 × 172.7 cm
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A VENETIAN WOMAN John Singer Sargent (American, b.1856, d.1925) 1882 oil on canvas 93 3/4 x 52 1/2 in. (238.1 x 133.4 cm)
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Lines used to create emphasis
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2. Color Def: When light strikes a surface, the part of the spectrum that is reflected is seen as color.
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The Color Wheel
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Warm Colors Mark Rothko Orange and Yellow
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Cool Colors Vincent Van-Gogh Starry Night
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3. Shape Def: A two-dimensional area defined by a closed line.
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A. Geometric Shapes Mechanically made shapes like squares, circles, etc.
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B. Organic Shapes Uneven, based on the shapes found in nature.
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Pablo Picasso The Guitar Player
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Georgia O’Keefe From the Lake
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4. Texture Def: Surface quality, actual or implied.
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A. Actual Texture Texture that you can feel.
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B. Implied Texture When something looks like it has a texture even though it doesn’t.
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5. Value Def: The lightness or darkness of something, whether in color or black and white.
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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa
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6. Space
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Positive Space Def: The area occupied by an image or object.
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Negative Space The area around images or objects.
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7. Form Def: Sometimes called volume, form is three- dimensional shape.
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A. Real Form Claes Oldenburg Spoonbridge and Cherry
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B. Implied Form Ex: Shading a drawing to create the appearance of something solid.
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LINE SHAPE COLOR TEXTURE VALUE SPACE FORM N PERSONAL ADJECTIVE PERSONAL ADJECTIVE PERSONAL ADJECTIVE
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LINE SHAPE COLOR TEXTURE VALUE SPACE FORM N JAZZ ROCK CLASSICAL
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