The and Elements Principles of Art The Elements

The and Elements Principles of Art

The Elements of Art The building blocks or ingredients of an artwork.

LINE Gustave Caillebotte Ansel Adams A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.

Pablo Picasso

COLOR Alexander Calder Consists of Hue (another word for color), Intensity (brightness) and Value (lightness or darkness). Henri Matisse

MC Escher VALUE The lightness or darkness of a color. Pablo Picasso

SHAPE Joan Miro An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; like a line or an area of color. Appears to be 2 dimensional.

Gustave Caillebotte

FORM Lucien Freud Jean Arp A 3 -dimensional object; or something in a 2 dimensional artwork that appears to be 3 -dimensional.

S P A C E The distance or area between, around, above, below, or withings. Robert Mapplethorpe Claude Monet Foreground, Middle-ground and Background (creates DEPTH in an artwork) Positive (filled by a physical object /shape. and Negative (the empty or areas between objects).

TEXTURE The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be Actual or Implied.

Actual or Implied? Cecil Buller

The Principles of Art What we use to organize the Elements of Art, or the recipe to making an artwork.

B A L ANC E Alexander Calder The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in an artwork.

Symmetrical Balance The parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other. MC Escher

Asymmetrical Balance When one side of a composition does not reflect the design on the other side. James Whistler

EMPHASIS Jim Dine The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stands out from the rest. Gustav Klimt

CONTRAST Salvador Dali Ansel Adams A large difference between two things to create interest and tension.

RHYTHM and ((( MOVEMENT ))) Giacomo Balla Marcel Duchamp A regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement.

Vincent Van Gogh

PATTERN & Repetition Gustav Klimt Repetition of an element or Motif.

V AR IE T Y The use of differences and change to increase the visual interest of the work. Marc Chagall

P R O P O R T IO N Gustave Caillebotte The comparative relationship of one part to another with respect to size, quantity, or degree; SCALE.

UNITY When all the elements and principles work together to create a pleasing image. Johannes Vermeer