the elements of art the building blocks or ingredients of art

The Elements of Art

The building blocks or ingredients of art.

LINEA continuous mark, longer than it is wide.

Ansel Adams

As you have seen, lines can have many qualities:

They can be curved or straight

Vertical horizontal diagonal

Thick or thin smooth orrough

Light or dark and continuous or broken

Perpendicular: lines that intersect creating 90 degree angle

Parallel: straight lines that are evenly spaced at all times

Lines can be…

Piet Modrian

SHAPEAn enclosed area; 2-dimensional.

Joan Miro

GEOMETRIC SHAPES

Shapes that are regular and precise. They can be measured and have names. Usually have angles (except oval & circle) Examples: squares, rectangles, octagon, circle, etc

ORGANIC SHAPES

Shapes that are irregular, difficult to measure and do not have mathematical names. Usually free-flowing. Examples: Teardrop, heart, leaf, etc.

Stan McQueen

FORMA 3-dimensional object or figure;

Implied form is when something in a 2D artwork appears to be 3D.

Jean Arp

SHAPE VS. FORM 2D 3D Space Volume

Leonardo DaVinci

Ron Barrick

Claude Monet

SPACEThe distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.

Space can be shown through foreground, middle-ground and background (creates DEPTH)

2 TYPES OF SPACEPositive (the subject)

Negative (the background)

VALUEThe lightness or darkness of a color or tone.

MC Escher

SHADE: dark values of a color or tone.

TINT: light values of a color or tone.

Russell Hart

COLORThe result of light reflections as seen by the eye.

Alexander Calder

HUE: the actual color itself (its name: red, blue, green)VALUE: the lightness or darkness (dark red, red, pink)INTENSITY: the brightness or dullness (fluorescent pink vs. pastel pink)

COLOR HAS 3 PROPERTIES…

This is a color wheel.

It is used to helpin color identification,mixing and choosing.

Texture is the way something feels to touch.

Implied texture is the way it appears to feel.

TEXTURE

The Principles of Art

The artists’ “checklist” to creating a strong visual composition

the distribution of the visual weight

BALANCE

Balance can be symmetrical (same on both sides), asymmetrical (not the same but similar visual

weight), or radial (same around a center point).

RHYTHMRepetition

used to create a sense of

visual movement

UNITYFeeling of harmony; all parts

working together

VARIETYTo have change in elements

throughout your photograph in order to add interest

EMPHASIS

Focal point; Point of interest