Principles with famous artists

1. Famous Paintings and The Principles of Art Paintings you’ll see again and again…..

2. Taking notes “from” pictures Do a thumbnail sketch. Draw a 2” x 2” box and QUICKLY sketch the major details of the picture. You want to sketch enough that the thumbnail will trigger a memory of the actual picture Include the artist’s name Include the name of the piece

3. The Elements of Art The Elements of Art are like the tools an artist uses to create a work of art. The Elements are: LINE SHAPE/FORM VALUE TEXTURE COLOR

4. The Principles of Art The Principles are the rules of art. These rules apply to how the artist uses the tools of art…oh’ yeah…line ,shape/form, color, value and texture. BALANCE PROPORTION RHYTHM MOVEMENT

5. VARIETY CONTRAST UNITY EMPHASIS

6. BALANCE VISUAL EQUALIBRIUM – The sense of stability Symmetrical Asymmetrical radial

7. symmetrical Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper

8. Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory asymmetrical

9. Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian Man

10. PROPORTION THE RELATIONSHIP OF SIZES

11. Pablo Picasso Portrait of Olga in the Armchair

12. Pablo Picasso The Dream

13. James Abbott McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Grey and Black

14. Rhythm Repetition of any of the elements – usually color, shape and value.

15. Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night

16. Claude Monet Poplars

17. MOVEMENT Directs the viewer’s eye through the picture plane

18. Franz Marc Fighting Forms

19. Vincent Van Gogh Wheat field with Cypress Trees

20. VARIETY Differences in the elements. Different colors, textures, shapes, sizes create interest.

21. Andy Warhol 9 Marilyns

22. Georgia O’Keeffe Oriental Poppies

23. CONTRAST A big difference in any of the elements

24. Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa

25. Georgia O’Keeffe Cow Skull:Red, White and Blue

26. EMPHASIS Points of interest that pull the viewer’s eye to the important parts of the work

27. Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup I

28. Jan Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring

29. Rene Magritte The Son of Man

30. UNITY All parts of a work seen as a whole.

31. Gustav Klimt The Kiss

32. Claude Monet Water Lilies

33. Edvard Munch The Scream