Elements principles of art

1. What is ?ART

2. What is ART?
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Uniqueexpressionofanidea
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Experienceorfeelinginawell

designedvisualform
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Allobjects createdforvisualappeal

3. Elements of ArtElements of Art
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Basicvisualsymbols

Basicvisualsymbols
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Artistsuseelements

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Arrangement in Grey and Black Whistler s Mother

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Dame Barbara Hepworth

Mother &Child
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Object Fur Breakfast

Meret Oppenheim

Chiffres et Constellations

Joan Miro

Venus de Milo
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Greek B C
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Mark Rothko
, 1949
Untitled


Proportions of the Human Figure

Leonardo da Vinci
Elements of Art
 Texture
 Color
 Value
 Shape
 Form
 Space
 Line

5. Line
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Thedistancebetweentwo
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points
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Amarkmadeonasurfaceby
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somepoint
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Pencilmarkonpaper
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Fingermarks onclay
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Brushmarkoncanvas

A Dancer Adjusting a Shoe

Edgar Degas

Self Portrait

Vincent Van Gogh

Anasazi Pottery

6. Texture
•The way something feels or appears to
feel if you could touch it.
•Rough & Smooth
•Matte & Shiny
•Soft & Hard
•Furry & Scaley

Little Ballerina Dancer Fourteen Years Old

Edgar Degas

Domain of Arnheim

Rene Magritte

7. COLOR
 3
Elementmadeupof
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QUALITIES
•Hue
•Value
•Intensity

Monkey Puzzle

Keith Haring

Squares with Concentric Rings

Wassily Kandinsky

8. COLOR
 3
Elementmadeupof
:
QUALITIES
Hue
•name of a color

Monkey Puzzle

Keith Haring

Squares with Concentric Rings

Wassily Kandinsky

9. COLOR
 3
Elementmadeupof
:
QUALITIES
Value
•Lights & darks

Monkey Puzzle

Keith Haring

Squares with Concentric Rings

Wassily Kandinsky

10. COLOR
 3
Elementmadeupof
:
QUALITIES
Intensity
•Brightness or
dullness of a color

Monkey Puzzle

Keith Haring

Squares with Concentric Rings

Wassily Kandinsky

11. VALUE
•Lights &
Darks
Pieta

Michelangelo Buonaroti

Jack in the Pulpit
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Georgia O Keeffe

Hand with Sphere
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MC Escher

12. Shape
•Area set off by one or more of the elements
of art.
•line, texture, color, value, & shape
•Shapes are flat and have height & width
(2D).

13. Types of Shapes
•Geometric

Composition with Blue Plane

Piet Mondrian
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Biomorphic
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organic
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Precise shapes from
math
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Shapes from nature

14. Form
•3-
Dimensional
objects
David

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Thinker

Auguste Rodin
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Forms have
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height width &
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depth

15. Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci
Space
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Positive
Space
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Negative
Space
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Spaceanobjecttakesup
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Spacearoundor
throughanobject
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Christina s World

Andrew Wyeth

16. Space
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Reclining Figures
Angles

Henry Moore

17. The Japanese Footbridge

Claude Monet

American Gothic

Grant Wood

People and Dog in the Sun

Joan Miro , . 2
Nude Descending a Staircase No

Marcel Duchamp
Broadway Boogie Woogie

Piet Mondrian

Nike of Samothrace

The Winged Victory
220-190 . .
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Principles of Art
 Emphasis
Contrast
 Harmony
 Balance
 Variety
 Movement
 Repetition
 Rhythm
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Campbell s Soup

Andy Warhol

Self Portrait with Monkey

Frida Kahlo
 Proportion
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Portrait with a Green Stripe Madame Matisse

Henri Matisse
 Pattern
Alom

Victor Vasarely

18. RepetitioRepetitio
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•Something repeated over & over again
Marilyn

Andy Warhol
RepetitioRepetitio
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RepetitioRepetitio
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RepetitioRepetitio
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RepetitioRepetitio
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Marilyn

Andy Warhol
Marilyn

Andy Warhol
Marilyn

Andy Warhol

19. Angeli Landente

Wiliam Morris

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt
Pattern
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A decorative design
Usually of a repeated
figure or motif

20. The Scream

Edvard Munch

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21. The Creation of Adam

Michelangelo buonarroti

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22. Retroactive I

Robert
Rauschenberg
CONTRAS
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Girl with Hair
Ribon

Roy Lichtenstein
Extreme differences in the elements of art

23. Garden at Giverny

Claude Monet
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The Artist s Garden at Giverny

Claude Monet•Unity
•Combining similar elements in a work
of art

WaterLilies

Claude Monet

The Lady of Shalott

John William Waterhouse

The Boating Party

Auguste Renoir
Harmony

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat

24. The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli
African Masks

Twohalvesareidentical

Grace
Jones

Andy Warhol

25. Little Spider

Alexander Calder
ASSYMETRICAL
BALANCE

Apparent

weight

Balances
Composition

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Lots ofdifferentelements combined

inaworkofart

Weeping Woman

Pablo Picasso
V A R I E T
Y

Royal Tide V

Louise Nevelson

The Three Musicians

Pablo Picasso

People and Dog in the Sun

Joan Miro
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Lots ofdifferentelements combined

inaworkofart

27. Alexander Calder

Ballet Montage

Edgar Degas

Ballet Montage

Edgar Degas
Moveme
nt
The look and feel of
action

The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh

Ballet Montage

Edgar Degas

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30. Jazz

Henri Matisse
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Yellow Red Blue

Wassily Kandinsky
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Visu
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temp
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beat

31. The Bath

Mary
Cassatt
Proportion

Proportions of the Human Figure

Leonardo da Vinci
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Sizerelationshipsofoneparttoanother

Surrounded Islands
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Christo and Jeanne Claude

The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci