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The Elements of Art

Explore the fundamental components of art that, when combined with design principles, form the basis for artistic expression. Dive into concepts such as line, color, value, shape, form, space, and texture and discover how artists like Ansel Adams, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse have utilized these elements to create masterpieces throughout history.

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The Elements of Art

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  1. The Elementsof Art

  2. The Elements of Art The building blocks of art. The elements of art are those components that one combines with principles of design to construct 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. LINES… Pablo Picasso

  5. COLOR Alexander Calder Henri Matisse

  6. COLOR Consists of: Hue -another word for color Intensity - the brightness or dullness of a shade or color Value - lightness or darkness of a shade or color

  7. VALUE Pablo Picasso MC Escher

  8. VALUE:The lightness or darkness of a shade or color. LINES… and VALUES… Pablo Picasso

  9. SHAPE Joan Miro An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; Shapes are limited to two dimensions: length and width.

  10. Geometric shapes - circles, rectangles, squares, triangles and so on - have the clear edges one achieves when using tools to create them. William Conger

  11. Organic shapes have natural, less well-defined edges, for example an amoeba, a leaf, or a cloud.

  12. LINES…VALUES…and SHAPES

  13. FORM Sculpture is an example of “real” form This painting is an example of “implied” form Lucien Freud Jean Arp

  14. FORM is a 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional. For example, this circle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, But the sphere, which is 3-dimensional, is a form. Form can Be real or implied.

  15. S P A C E The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things. space in a composition Claude Monet The development of foreground, middleground, and backgroundis one way to create DEPTH.

  16. Robert Mapplethorpe Positive space is the area of a composition that is filled with something- the objects. Negative space is the area which surrounds the objects in a composition or the empty areas.

  17. Overlapping is a technique that can be used to develop space in a composition.

  18. TEXTURE The surface quality of an object, smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be actual or implied.

  19. Cecil Buller

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