This document discusses the key elements of art including line, shape, color, texture, space, value, and form. It provides examples of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse to illustrate different elements. The document is intended as a teacher's guide for understanding fundamental components that make up visual artworks.

1. ELEMENTSELEMENTS
OfOf
ARTART

2. Elements of Art:

3. Art by Patrick McDonnell
• Abstract Line
Design

4. LINE
• Wassily Kandinsky

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6. Elements of Art

7. Geometric ShapesGeometric Shapes
Piet Mondrian
Victor Vasarely
Frank Lloyd Wright

8. Geometric ShapesGeometric Shapes

9. Organic ShapesOrganic Shapes

10. SHAPE
Mondrian VS Calder

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12. Elements of Art

13. COLOR

14. COLOR

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17. Elements of Art

18. How would it feel to the touch?
Brainstorm words that
describe the texture.
Tactile Texture

19. Visual illusion
Visual Texture

20. TEXTURE
• Vincent vanGogh

21. Go on a scavenger hunt to find
five different textures.
Tactile Texture into Visual Texture

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24. Elements of Art

25. SPACE
Space
Overlapping
Details
Intensity
Placement

26. Size

27. Overlapping

28. Detail

29. Intensity

30. Placement

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ValueValue

35. VALUE

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38. FORM

40. Elements of Art

41. Line

42. • Line is perhaps the most fundamental
building block of art.

43. • 2 artists exemplify the usage of line
– Pablo Picasso
– Henri Matisse

67. Contour Lines
• The most basic way to use line in drawing
is through contour lines
• Contour lines: Contour means
"outline", and presents exterior edges of
objects. A plain contour has a clean,
connected line, no shading and
emphasizes an open "shell" of the subject.