Chapter 2 Part 1a / Formal Analysis

Chapter 2

Formal Elements of Art

• Line • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Light and Value• Color• Texture and Pattern• and volume

• S p a c e• Time and Motion• + some others

Time and Motion

Line

The measure of a line is it’s length and it’s width that can be conceptualized as a moving dot. - Fichner

Sumi PaintingChinese Calligraphy and Painting

Line

Art Nouveau

The Climax From the book, Salomé by Oscar Wilde 1893

Line

Aubrey BeardsleyThe Peacock SkirtFrom the book, Salomé by Oscar Wilde 1893

Sol LewittLines From Four Corners

To Points On A GridWhite and black crayon 1976

Line

Cy TwomblyUntitled

Ink on paper 1937

Implied Line

Henri de Toulouse-LatrecYvette Gilbert

Oil on paper 1892

Paul KleeThey’re Biting

Drawing and Oil on pape 1920

Outline

Egon SchieleSeated Woman

Charcoal and casein on paper 1917

Contour Line

Henri RousseauThe Sleeping Gypsy

Jacob LawrenceHarriet Tubman Series, No. 4, 1939-40

Horizontal Line

Diagonal Line

Self-PortraitCharcoal 1924

The OutbreakEtching Print 1903

Kathe Kollwitz 1867 - 1945

Diagonal Line (& gesture lines)

Albrecht DurerArtist drawing a model in foreshortening through a frame using a grd system

Woodcut Print c.1500

Hatching (& repetition of line) to create volume and depth

15th Century Northern Art* German Art

Night, Death, and the DevilEngraving 1513

Los Angeles Museum of Art

Young HareWatercolor with opaque white 1502

The Albertina Museum, Vienna

Albrecht Durer

Line

Egon SchieleSeated Woman

Charcoal and casein on paper 1917

Hatching (& repetition of line) to create volume and depth

Landscape Etching Print c.1640

Rembrandt Van Rijn

Self-PortraitEtching Print c.1625

Rembrandt Van RijnThree crosses

Etching Print c.1640

Hatching (& repetition of line) to create volume and depth

Aboriginal Memorial

Line in 3-Dimensions

Royal Linguist’s StaffAsante, Ghana

Aboriginal MemorialBy Ramingining

A group of 43 artists headed by Paddy Dhatangu and others200 pieces of heights : 16” to 128”

Line in 3 dimensions

Light and Value

Light is at the very core of the visual arts. The value of a color of a surface is its lightness or darkness.

Henri RousseauThe Sleeping Gypsy

Light and Value

Chiaroscuro

Rosso FiorentinoRecumbent Female Nude Figure Asleep

Conte crayon c.1535

Georges SeuratMother sewing

Charcoal 1880

Chiaroscuro

Jan VermeerGirl with a Pearl Earring

Oil on canvas c.1660

Sky CathedralPainted wood 1969

Light and Value

Louise Nevelson

White Vertical WaterPainted wood 1972

Bruce NaumanHuman/Need/Desire

Neon 1983

Light

Bruce Nauman The True ArtistNeon c.1984

Bruce Nauman Mean Clowns Welcome

Neon c. 1988

Dan FlavinUntitled (in honor of Harold Joachim)

Neon c 1979

Light

Color

It is only after years of preparation that the artist should touch color ------ not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Henri Matisse

Color

Subtractive Color System (color scheme for pigments, paints, etc.)

Color

Ended 11am

Color

Wayne ThiebaudFour Cakes

Lithograph 1999

Color

The Piano LessonOil on canvas 1916

Color

Girl Reading (La Lecture)

Oil on canvas (o/c) 1905-06

Henri Matisse

Jasper Johns

See other

POGD

To beginning Colors

Additive Color System

Color

Additive Color SystemRGB for lightwaves, i.e. digital cameras, TV, computer screens, the eye, scanners, etc.

Color

Romanticism England

Mr. And Mrs. Andrews Oil on canvas 1750

Example of local color

The Hay Wain Oil on canvas 1821

John Constable (1776 - 1837)

Impressionism

Claude Monet

Rouen CathedralOil on canvas 1894

Example of optical color

Texture and Pattern

The word texture derives from the Latin word for ‘weaving.’ Pattern is repetition in organized form. - Fichner

Pattern

BlanketMountain goat wool and cedar bark

Tlingit

Pattern

Wayne ThiebaudPie Counter

Oil on canvas 1963

Pattern

The Great Mosque (Islamic)Cordoba, Spain 786

Royal MosqueIsfahan, Iran 1612-1637

Pattern and Texture

Deesis Mosaic (detail)Mosaic tile 1185 - 1204

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey

Lion CapitalPolished sandstone 250 BCE

India

Texture (tactile,actual)

Louise BourgeoisBlind Man’s Bluff

Marble 1984

Texture (tactile,actual)

Meret OppenheimObject

Fur 1936

Texture (tactile,actual)

Jan BruegelLittle Bouquet in a Clay Jar c.1600

Oil on wood panel

Texture (implied or the illusion of texture)

Pinkham RyderNight Seascape

Oil 1906

Texture (tactile,actual)

Dreams by

Kurosawa

Texture (tactile,actual)

Vincent Van GoghCrows in the Wheat Field

Oil on canvas 1890

Shape and Volume

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone. - Paul Cézanne

ShapeIrregular - Organic / Biomorphic

Louise BourgeoisCumul

Marble c 1984

ShapeIrregular - Organic / Biomorphic

Martin PuryearThat Profile

Stainless steel 1997 - 99

Cubi XVIIIPolished Stainless Steel 1964

David Smith

Cubi XXVIPolished Stainless Steel 1965

Shape Regula / Linear shapes- Geometric

Every time I make a sculpture it breeds ten more, and then time is too short to make them all. - David Smith

Space

I find it important to draw attnetion to thinking and doing as well as to what happens in between, to

lightness and heaviness, to the energy that oscillates between . . .

- Magdalena Jetelová

Space (planar 2-Dimensions)

Jacob LawrenceNo. 36: During the Truce Touissant is Deceived ………

Tempera on paper c 1937

Frida KahloSelf-Portrait with Monkey

Oil on masonite 1938

Space (planar but Illusion of 3-Dimensons)

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Part 1b / Formal Analysis