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Elements and principles
- 1. The Artistic Process Understandinghow knowledge of the Elements and Principles of Design will help you during the artistic process.
- 2. Basic Steps ofthe Artistic Process • Imagining- developing ideas, concepts, ideas, feelings • Planning- experimenting, researching and designing ways of presenting the ideas through artistic materials • Making, Evaluating, Refining- applying understundings and skills/techniques to bring the ideas to life through artistic work • Presenting- exhibiting completed work for others
- 3. Elements and Principlesof Design Elements: Line Shape Form Color Value Texture Space Principles: Balance Emphasis & Focal Point Contrast Movement Variety Pattern & Repetition Unity Harmony/Gestalt
- 4. Line A line isdefined as a mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface. A line can vary in length, width, direction, curvature, and color. Contour, Diagonal, Broken, Curved, Outline, Implied, Vertical, zigzag, Horizontal, Wavy, Slanted, Continuous, Solid, Narrow, Bold Jasper Johns, 0-9 (continuous line) Gesture drawing
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- 8. Shape Shape is anenclosed space defined by other elements of art. Shape is 2-Dimensional Shape can be: Geometric: Angular, man-made concept Organic: curvilinear - found in nature Fernana Leger, The City Matisse, from the series “Jazz”
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- 11. MC Escher, SelfPortrait
- 12. Tamara de Lempicka Portraitof Ira P. 1925 Vincent Van Gogh, Shoes
- 13. Value An element ofart that refers to luminance or luminosity – the lightness or darkness of a color. Value is an especially important element in works of art when color is absent. This is particularly likely with drawings, printmaking, and photographs Kathe Kollwitz, Self portrait
- 14. Value Chuck Close (made w/thumbprints!) Edward Weston, Pepper (photograph)
- 15. Texture Texture refers tothe surface quality or "feel" of an object, such as roughness, smoothness, or softness. Actual texture can be felt while simulated textures are implied by the way the artist renders the surface area Oppenheim Fur-lined cup
- 16. Texture Actual and Implied Golsdworthy AlbrechtDurer Rhinocerus
- 17. Color Is an elementof art with three properties 1) Hue, the name of the color, e.g. red, yellow, etc. 2) Intensity or the purity and strength of the color 3) Value, or the lightness or darkness of the color Delauney Jasper Johns, Target (primary colors)
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- 20. Warm Colors • Colorsthat are often described as being higher in temperature • Reds, oranges, yellows • Associated with fire and sun • Optically, appear to advance • Stimulating and passionate
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- 22. Cool • Colors thatare often described as being lower in temperature • Greens, Blues, and Violet • Associated with water, sky, and spring • Optically, they appear to recede • Calming and depressing
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- 24. Color and Mood Picasso,the Old Guitarist Van Gogh, the Night Cafe
- 25. Space Space is theempty or open area between, around, above, below, or within objects. Shapes and forms are made by the space around and within them. Space is often called three-dimensional or two- dimensional. MC Escher
- 26. Space Positive space isfilled by a shape or form. Negative space surrounds a shape or form.
- 27. Space/Depth May be createdby overlapping, change in scale, perspective placement, color theory, or projection toward the viewer. David Hockney Place Furstenberg, Paris, August 7,8,9, 1985 -#11985
- 28. Balance Balance is asense of stability in the body of work. Balance can be symmetrical (formal) or assymmetrical (informal) Wayne Thiebaud, Around the Cake (formal balance)
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- 30. Leonardo da Vinci,The Last Supper 1495-1498 Symmetrical Balance
- 31. Asymmetrical Balance Edgar Degas(informal balance)
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- 33. Variety When elements arechanged in scale, color, or form. Andy Warhol Stuart Davis
- 34. Movement Movement adds excitementto your work by showing action and directing the viewers eye throughout the picture plane. Edward Munch, the Scream
- 35. Movement Marcel Duchamp, NudeDescending Staircase Umberto Boccioni, Unique forms of continuity in space
- 36. Dominance & Subordination Thepart of a composition that is emphasized, has the greatest visual weight, the most important, powerful, or has the most influence.
- 37. Emphasis & FocalPoint Emphasis - Any forcefulness that gives importance to some feature or features of an artwork; something singled out, stressed, or drawn attention to by means of contrast, anomaly, or counterpoint Focal Point = portion of an artwork's composition on which interest or attention centers David Hockney
- 38. Emphasis & FocalPoint Barbara Kruger Rene Magritte
- 39. Pattern & Repetition Involvesmultiples of the same element. Repeated elements can vary in size, color, or axis placement. Repeated elements can create a pattern. The use of repetition may be applied to all Visual Elements. Motion can be created by repetition. William Morris Arts and Crafts Movement
- 40. Pattern & Repetition ChuckClose, Self Portrait, detail
- 41. Contrast A large differencebetween two things, such as light and shadow, color and black/white Andy Warhol
- 42. Contrast David, the Deathof Marat
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- 45. Unity & Harmony Thequality of wholeness or oneness (Gestalt) that is achieved through the effective use of the elements and principles of design. Claude Monet Haystacks
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- 47. Unity Van Gogh “StarryNight”
- 48. What Elements andPrinciples stand out?
- 49. What Elements andPrinciples stand out? Goya, “The 5th of May”
- 50. Gauguin What Elements andPrinciples stand out?
- 51. What Elements andPrinciples stand out?