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The Elements and Principles of Art

The Elements and Principles of Art. The Elements of Art. The building blocks or ingredients of art. LINE. A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point. Ansel Adams. Gustave Caillebotte. Paul Strand. C O L O R.

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The Elements and Principles of Art

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  1. TheElementsandPrinciplesof Art

  2. The Elements of Art The building blocks or ingredients of art.

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

  4. Paul Strand

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

  6. Cindy Sherman

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

  8. Ansel Adams

  9. SHAPE An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional. Joan Miro

  10. Barbara Morgan

  11. FORM A 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional. For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, is a form. Lucien Freud Jean Arp

  12. Edward Weston

  13. S P A C E The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things. Foreground, Middleground and Background (creates DEPTH) Positive (filled with something) and Negative (empty areas). Robert Mapplethorpe Claude Monet

  14. George Lange

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

  16. Edward Weston

  17. The Principles of Art What we use to organize the Elements of Art, or the tools to make art.

  18. BALANCE The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work. Alexander Calder

  19. Ed Ruscha

  20. EMPHASIS The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most. Jim Dine Gustav Klimt

  21. Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

  23. Wright Morris

  24. MOVEMENT Anything that draws a viewer’s eye through a composition or creates the illusion of movement Marcel Duchamp

  25. David Hockney

  26. RHYTHM Gustav Klimt Repetition of a design.

  27. Diane Arbus

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

  29. Sandy Skoglund

  30. VARIETY The use of differences and change to increase the visual interest of the work. Marc Chagall

  31. David LaChapelle

  32. PROPORTION The comparative relationship of one part to another with respect to size, quantity, or degree; SCALE. Gustave Caillebotte

  33. Emmet Gowin

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