This document discusses the elements and principles of art through examples of various artworks. It covers the elements of line, shape, texture, and color, including the properties of color like hue, value, and intensity. It then discusses the principles of balance, rhythm/movement, and unity. For each element and principle, it provides images of artworks that demonstrate that particular element or principle.

1. elements & principles
of art review
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3. The Elements of Art

4. Richard Long. Five Paths. 2002.
LINE

5. Ellsworth Kelly. From series of plant drawings.
LINE

6. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Portrait
of Mme. Hayard and her Daughter
Caroline. 1815
Alberto Giacometti. Self-Portrait. 1954
LINE

7. Rembrandt. Sketches for Christ Healing the Sick. 1647-49
LINE

8. Henry OssawaTanner. Study
for the Disciple Peter. 1933.
LINE

9. Georges de LaTour.The FortuneTeller. 1630s.
LINE

10. LINE

11. Study for Houndstooth by Mario Robinson
SHAPE

12. Kay Fenton
SHAPE

13. Zoe Miller and David
Goodman, Faces.
SHAPE

14. Arshile Gorky
SHAPE

15. SHAPE

16. Richard Serra
Joe
SHAPE

17. Richard Serra
Joe
SHAPE

18. SHAPE

19. TEXTURE

20. TEXTURE

21. TEXTURE

22. TEXTURE

23. TEXTURE

24. Chester Higgins
Egg Vendor Along Commuter
Tracks in Ghana
1974
TEXTURE

25. Color is the visual effect that is
caused by the spectral composition
of the light emitted, transmitted, or
reflected by objects.
COLOR

26. Color originates in light.
Sunlight, as we perceive it, looks colorless.
In reality, all the colors of the spectrum are present in white
light.
COLOR

27. 1. All the" invisible" colors of sunlight shine on the apple.
2. The surface of a red apple absorbs all the colored light rays,
except for those corresponding to red, and reflects this color
to the human eye. Environment & Perception also play into
our interpretation of this color.
3. The eye receives the reflected red light and sends a message
to the brain.
COLOR

28. When light hits the surface, the
BLUE paint ABSORBS all the light
EXCEPT the blue part of the
spectrum.
COLOR

29. Properties of Color
• HUE
• VALUE
• INTENSITY (or saturation)
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30. HUE - the name of the color, the part of
the color spectrum that the color belongs
to: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or
violet.
COLOR

31. V A L U E -
lightness or
darkness of the
hue.
Mark Rothko,
Untitled (Black on Gray),
1969/1970.
COLOR

32. VALUE—lightness or darkness of the hue.
– Adding white produces aTINT
– Adding black produces a SHADE
– Adding gray produces aTONE
COLOR

33. “
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COLOR

34. INTENSITY—The brightness of a color.
Not to be confused with lightness, which is
value.
– Also called“chroma” or“saturation.
COLOR

35. COLOR

36. The Principles of Art

38. Henri Riviere. Funeral Under
Umbrellas. 1895.
BALANCE

39. WayneThiebaud
BALANCE

40. WayneThiebaud
BALANCE

41. BALANCE

42. BALANCE

43. BALANCE

44. Rose Window. Cathedral of St. John the Divine
BALANCE

45. BALANCE

46. Christo. Running Fence Drawing.
1973
BALANCE

47. Edvard Munch
BALANCE

48. Lucian Freud
BALANCE

49. BALANCE

50. Rachel Whiteread
BALANCE

51. Alice Neel.
Loneliness
1970
BALANCE

52. Egon Scheile. Portrait of the
Painter Anton Peschka, 1909
BALANCE

53. Paula Rego.
The Family
1988
BALANCE

54. Andrew Wyeth. Christina’s World. 1948
BALANCE

55. David Hockney.
Yves-Marie Asleep.
1976
BALANCE

56. Thomas Eakins. The Agnew Clinic. 1889
BALANCE

57. David Hockney.
A Bigger Splash.
1967
BALANCE

58. Richard Roth. Untitled 1983
BALANCE

59. Fra Filippo Lippi.
Saint Lawrence Enthroned
with Saints and Donors.
c. Late 1440s
BALANCE

60. KentTwitchell. LA Marathon Mural. 405 Freeway.
BALANCE

61. Bridget Riley.
Arrest 2.
1965
RHYTHM/MOVEMENT

62. Beatriz Milhazes
RHYTHM/MOVEMENT

63. RHYTHM/MOVEMENT

64. WayneThiebaud, Paint
Cans, 1990
UNITY

65. Katharina Fritsch,
Company at Table.
1988
UNITY

66. Eva Zeisel. Ceramic.
UNITY

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