Elements of Arts

1. Elements of Art
and
Principles of Design

2. Elements of Art
The building blocks or ingredients of art.
They structure and carry the work.

3. Elements of Art
Line
Color
Value
Shape
Form
Space
Texture

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

5. LINE
May be vertical, horizontal or diagonal,
curved, straight, zigzag, or show emotion.

6. LINE

7. Contour lines- outline
the edges of forms or
shapes
Gestural lines-
indicate action and
physical movement
LINE

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

9. Color has three properties:
1. HUE: this is the name of
the colors
2. VALUE: refers to the
lightness or darkness of
a hue.
3. INTENSITY: refers to the
purity of the hue (called
“chroma”)
COLOR

10. Neutral Colors
These colors are made by adding a complimentary color
(opposite on the color wheel) to a hue. Neutralized hues are
called tones.

11. Tints – adding the color white to lighten a hue
Shades – adding black to darken a hue
Tints and Shades

12. Warm and Cool Colors
Warm – red, orange, yellow
Cool – green, blue, violet

13. The lightness or darkness of a color.
MC Escher Pablo Picasso
VALUE

14. High Range in Value Low Range in Value
VALUE

15. An enclosed area defined and determined
by other art elements; 2-dimensional.
Joan
Miro
SHAPE

16. SHAPE
Shapes can be geometric or organic.
GEOMETRIC: square,
triangle, rectangle, rhombus,
circle, cone
ORGANIC: free form shapes,
shapes in nature; for example:
leaves, trees, animals

17. Organic vs. Geometric
SHAPE

18. A 3-dimensional object; or
something in a 2-
dimensional artwork that
appears to be 3-dimensional.
Jean Arp
Lucien Freud

19. Shows an object in space, the mass or positive space it
occupies.
For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape,
but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, is a form.

20. Form can be 2D
Form can be 3D

21. The distance or area between, around, above,
below, or within things.
Foreground, Middleground and Background (creates DEPTH)
SPACE

22. Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas)
SPACE

23. The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its
smoothness, roughness, softness, etc.
TEXTURE

24. TEXTURE
Textures may be actual or implied.

25. Actual – texture that you can feel
with your sense of touch
Implied – texture that has been
simulated in drawing and
painting on a smooth surface
TEXTURE

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27. Principles of Design
What we use to organize the Elements
of Art, or the tools to make art.
They are concepts that affect content
and message.

28. Principles of Design
Balance
Emphasis
Contrast
Movement &
Rhythm
Unity
Variety
Proportion

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

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

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

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

33. EMPHASIS
The part that catches your attention first.

34. Can be created through the use of many different
elements and principles like…
CONTRAST
PROPORTION
COLOR
EMPHASIS

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

36. …with color
…with proportion/scale
Contrast

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

38. MOVEMENT
The motion created in a work of art.
Often uses the principle of rhythm to achieve this.

39. RHYTHM
The repetition of lines, shapes, or colors to
create a feeling of movement.

40. Vincent VanGogh

41. When all the
elements and
principles work
together to create
a pleasing image.
The feeling of
wholeness or the
parts belonging
together.
Johannes Vermeer
UNITY

42. The use of
differences and
change to
increase the
visual interest
of the work.
Marc Chagall
VARIETY

43. VARIETY
The use of different
lines, shapes, and
colors in a piece of
work.

44. The comparative
relationship of
one part to
another with
respect to size,
quantity, or
degree; SCALE.
Gustave
Caillebotte
PROPORTION

45. PROPORTION

46. You should now have
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