Elements and principle

Line

Path made by a moving point

Vertical Line

• Vertical lines in art represent strength and stability

Horizontal Line

• Horizontal lines represent calm in an artwork.

Diagonal Lines

• In artwork diagonal lines represent energy or movement.

Shape

The area enclosed by a line 2-D

Organic Shapes

• Shapes found in nature or have a natural flow.

Geometric Shapes

• Man made shapes found in mathematics

Form

Area enclosed by shapes (3D)

Like shapes there are organic and geometric forms

• Geometric• Organic

Value

Relationship between lights and darks.

Value

• In a 2 dimensional work (painting, drawing, photograph, etc.) Value is used to show form and depth. Also called shading.

Texture

• Surface quality of an object, how it feels.

Space

Area in or around an object

Positive Space

• The space that is the subject of an image.

Negative Space

• The area between or around an object

Color

• How light reflects off of an object. Has intensity, hue, and value

Primary Colors

• Can not be made by mixing other colors. – Primary = 1st

Secondary Colors

• Colors made by mixing 2 primary colors– Secondary = 2nd

Tertiary Colors• The third tier of colors,

comes from mixing a primary color with a near secondary color. Names are primary first then secondary. – Example : Red-violet

Red– Facts about red

• Red is the universal sign for stop.

• Red is a color of extremes, extreme love and extreme anger.

• Red is a very powerful color and should be used sparingly in artwork.

Yellow

– Facts about yellow• Yellow is the first color

your eye sees• In most cultures yellow

symbolizes happiness, sunshine, and warmth.

• Yellow is the only color that reacts badly to black.

Blue

• Facts about blue.• Blue is the number one

favorite color in the world.

• Where red is an appetite stimulant blue is an appetite suppressant.

• Blue in artwork can evoke sadness or depression.

Principles of Design

• Composition- layout of an artwork.

• How you use the elements in a composition

• If the elements are the tools, principles are the rules for using them.

Balance

• Symmetrical – In symmetrical balance both sides of the image are the same.

• Asymmetrical – In symmetrical balance both sides of the image are different, but have equal visual weight.

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-1498

• Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory, 1931

Repetition

• Repeating of the elements in an artwork.

Variation

• The changing of elements in an artwork.

Piet Mondrian, Diagonal Composition, 1921

Scale

• Size relationships of objects in an artwork.

Emphasis• Focusing the

viewer to one or some areas of an artwork.

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-1498

Pattern

• Structured repetition of elements in an artwork.

Unity

• Feeling of togetherness or completeness in an artwork.