Elements of Design originally created by Jennifer McCann, altered by Ondrian Reid for 2015-16

1. Elements of ART /
DESIGN
O. REID 2015

2. Why are they soooo
important?
Remember, they make things
more exciting.
Without the elements very
little would exist, because they
are essential to designing and
making anything and
everything.

3. What are the elements of
art?
 Line
 Shape
 Color
 Value
 Texture
 Form
 Space
They are the “building blocks” or
“ingredients” of an artwork?

4. What elements of art do you
see?
Helmet Head #2, 1950
Henry Moore
The Rhythm is Everything, 2012
Kehinde Wiley

5. LINES- Marks with length and
direction
Arrest 2, 1965
Blaze 1, 1965
Bridget Riley

6. … but there is more to
LINES
Lines are used to create shapes, sketches, and contour drawi
David
Hockney

7. …and MORE…
Lines can show form.

8. …and
more
Lines can show direction.

9. …and
more
Lines can show movement and texture.
Hong Chun
Zhang
Vincent
van Gogh

10. …and
more
Lines can show emotion / expression.
Dave Karlen

11. Lines are essential to making and
designing anything and everything.
Lines come together to make
wonderful things.
Pamela Sunday
Alexander Calder
Kate Esplen

12. SHAPE
= a line that creates an enclosed space
= flat
Four Characters, 1974
Jean Dubuffet
Méta-mécanique, 1954
Jean Tinguely

13. What kinds of SHAPES
do you see?
Henri Matisse, 1953
The Sheaf
Wassily Kandinsky, 1932
Decisive Pink
GEOMETRIC ORGANIC

14. Shapes work together.
Marc Chagall, 1955
I and the Village
This painting has both
organic and
geometric shapes
working together
to create
recognizable
objects.

15. COLOR
– how our eyes see reflected waves of
light

16. Color is one of the most
expressive elements of art
Andy Warhol, 1967
Self-Portrait

17. A simple color
choice can also
enhance the
mood.
Pablo Picasso, 1904
Old Guitarist

18. VALUE – lightness and darkness
Pablo Picasso, 1937
Guernica

19. Value Scales
There are a variety of techniques that can show value differences.

20. Value is
shown in
more than
paintings
and
drawings.
Can color show value differences?
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother, 1936

21. Value differences in color =
tints and shades
Georgia O’Keeffe
Black Mesa Landscape, 1930

22. TEXTURE
– how something feels or appears
to feel

23. How are these textures
different?
Meret Oppenheim
Object Paris, 1936
Albrecht Durer
A young Hare, 1503
IMPLIED / VISUAL ACTUAL/REAL

24. Look closely at how these textures
were drawn. What do you notice?

25. FORM – a 3D shape … not
flat
Forms have height, length and width (depth).

26. What makes these forms look
so life like? What do you
notice?
Wayne Thiebaud
Cakes, 1936
MC Escher
Reptiles, 1943

27. Keep in mind that forms can
also be sculptural.
Flying Pins, 2000
Claes Oldenburg

28. SPACE
- ways to talk about
1. showing distance
2. positive and negative areas

29. What does the artist do to give
the illusion of space in this
landscape?
Salvador Dali
Weaning from the Food Chair, 1934
ATMOSPHERIC
PERSPECTIVE
- Placement
- Horizon line
- Foreground
- Middle Ground
- Background
- Size
- Overlapping
- Detail
- Color

30. Using LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
uses precisely drawn lines to give
the illusion of space.

31. Interiors and Still Lifes also use
similar techniques to show depth
Frida Kahlo
Still Life with Parrot, 1951
Rene Magritte
Personal Values, 1952

32. Positive and Negative
Space
Dalton Ghetti
Giraffe, 2014ish
Jasper Johns
Cups for Picasso, 1973

33. Positive and Negative
Space
Tang Yau Hoong
Beware of those Hands, 2011
Oscar Nunez
Fill in the Cat, 2009

34. Line
Shape
Form
Color
Value
Space
Texture
Balance
Emphasis
Movement
Unity
Variety
Pattern
Proportion