The document discusses the key visual elements used in art including line, shape, form, light, value, color, texture, and space. It explains different types of each element such as geometric versus organic shapes, actual versus implied lines, and warm versus cool colors. It also covers principles of art composition including unity, variety, balance, emphasis, proportion, and rhythm and how artists use these elements and principles to effectively communicate ideas and emotions through their works.

1. The Visual Elements

2. When looking at works of art, you see different colors, values, lines, textures and shapes. You see countless ways artists combine and organize these elements so their ideas and feelings can be communicated and understood by viewers. Looking at works of art, however, doesn’t mean you “see” them. To fully understand a painting, a sculpture, or a building, you need to understand a visual vocabulary and recognize how it is used to produce successful works of art.

3. Line Functions of Line - Outline and Form Kara Walker

4. Line Functions of Line -Movement & Emphasis George Seurat

5. Line Functions of Line -Pattern and Texture Piet Mondrian

6. Functions of Line -Shading and Modeling Rembrandt

7. Types of Line Actual Lines

8. Types of Line Implied Lines gestalt theory

9. Types of Line Lines formed by an edge

10. Types of Line Active Lines contrapposto

11. Types of Line Static Lines

12. Types of Line Contour lines -Convention Henri Matisse

13. Characteristics of Line Direction Tintoretto

14. Characteristics of Line Direction -line of sight -compositional lines

15. Characteristics of Line Linear Quality - Calligraphic lines

16. Shape and Mass/Form Shape Form

17. Types of Shapes and Forms Geometric (Hard-edge)

18. Types of Shapes and Forms Organic (biomorphic) Paul Klee

19. Light, Value, and Color

20. Light Illusion of Light -Chiaroscuro -Tenebrism Georges de La Tour

21. Value

22. Color The spectrum and Sir Isaac Newton Reflected white light

23. Color Wheel

24. Primary Colors

25. Secondary Colors

26. Tertiary Colors

27. Intensity Value -Tint -Shade

28. Color Harmonies Monochromatic

29. Color Harmonies Complementary colors -Simultaneous contrast

30. Color Harmonies Analogous

31. Color is relative It is effected by the colors around it So that a green next to blue looks more yellow than the same green next to yellow (which looks more blue)

32. The Psychology of Color Warm Colors Cool Colors

33. The Psychology of Color statistics

34. The Psychology of Color Red Light -shown to increase heartbeats Blue Light -shown to decrease heatbeats

35. The Psychology of Color Local Color Optical Color

36. Surface and Space

37. Texture Actual - bronze, stone, wood, glass, etc. Visual -trompe l’oeil Pattern

38. Space 3D Space 2D Space

39. Illusions of Depth Overlapping Placement Scale Converging Lines Color Foreshortening

40. Principles of Art Unity Variety Balance Emphasis Proportion and Scale Rhythm and Movement

41. Unity

42. Variety

43. Balance Symmetrical Asymmetrical Radial

44. Emphasis Focal Point -Golden Section -Rule of Thirds

45. Proportion and Scale Golden Section 5:8 Hieratic representation

46. Composition with the Golden Section

47. Rhythm and Movement