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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.

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1 The Elements of Art

2 The building blocks of art. The elements of art are those components that one combines with principles of design to construct art.

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

4 Pablo Picasso LINES…

5 COLORCOLOR Henri Matisse Alexander Calder

6 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

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8 VALUEVALUE MC Escher Pablo Picasso

9 VALUE: The lightness or darkness of a shade or color. LINES… and VALUES… LINES… and VALUES… Pablo Picasso

10 SHAPE Joan Miro An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; Shapes are limited to two dimensions: length and width.

11 Geometric shapes - circles, rectangles, squares, triangles and so on - have the clear edges one achieves when using tools to create them. William Conger

12 Organic shapes have natural, less well-defined edges, for example an amoeba, a leaf, or a cloud.

13 LINES…VALUES…and SHAPES

14 Jean Arp Lucien Freud Sculpture is an example of “real” form FORM This painting is an example of “implied” form

15 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.

16 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

17 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

18 Overlapping is a technique that can be used to develop space in a composition.

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

20 Cecil Buller


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