Transcript Elements and Principles of Design
the building blocks used to create a work of art
Line
Shape
Form
Value
Color
Texture
Space
Volume/Mass
An extended point; with length and direction
Can you Name some types of lines?
Wassily Kandinsky
• • • Russian-born artist 1866-1944 one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting "Composition VIII", 1923 Composition VIII reflects the influence of Suprematism and Constructivism He uses different colors within the forms to energize their geometry: a yellow circle with blue halo versus blue circle with yellow halo; a right angle filled with blue and an acute angle colored pink.
Jackson Pollock
• • • American Painter 1912-1956 the commanding figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement “Lavender Mist: Number 1”, 1950 • Pollock was the first “all-over‘” painter, pouring paint rather than using brushes and a palette, and abandoning all conventions of a central motif • • “The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.” He painted no image, just ”action”
Piet Mondrian
• • • Dutch Abstract Painter 1872-1944 the real artist of geometry, “abstract purity” • “Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue and Black”, 1921 Mondrian imposed rigorous constraints on himself, using only primary colors, black and white, and straight-sided forms. • he developed a new style of abstract painting, replacing his cluttered canvasses with simplicity
• • • Outline Contour Line Gesture Line
• • • • A closed line It is 2-D Can be geometric Can be organic
Henri Matisse
• • French Fauvist Artist 1869-1954 “Anfitrite”, 1947 • gouache on paper cut and pasted • Matisse generally cut the shapes out freehand, using a small pair of scissors and saving both the item cut out and remaining scraps of paper.
• A 3-D object having volume and thickness
• • “tone” The lightness or darkness of an color 1.
Highlight
2.
Area of Illumination
3.
Half Shade
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Deep Shade
5.
Cast Shadow
Value Scale
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Crosshatch
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Hatch
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Stipple
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Scumble
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M.C. Escher, Drawing Hands 1948 Lithograph
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M.C. Escher, Hand with Fir Cone 1921 woodcut
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Crosshatch
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• Drawing Pencil
• • • surface quality either tactile or visual the degree of roughness or smoothness
• • the area between and around objects Positive/negative space
• • • “HUE”: color in it’s pure state Chroma: purity or intensity of color Intensity: bright/dull Value: light/dark
• • • • • • Monochromatic Analogous Complementary Triadic Tint/Shade Warm/Cool
• V: Refers to the space within a form • M: the effect and degree of bulk, density, and weight of matter in space Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, Bronze
Emphasis
Balance
Rhythm
Harmony
Movement
Proportion
Unity & Variety
Repetition
Pattern
Contrast
• • Focal Point area that first attracts attention in a composition
• feeling of visual equality in shape, form, value, color, etc… symmetrical or evenly balanced asymmetrical and un-evenly balanced
• • A visual tempo or beat regular repetition of elements of art to produce the look and feel of movement.
Henri Matisse, “Dance (I)”, 1909
• A way of combining elements of art to accent their similarities and bind the picture parts into a whole. Henri Matisse, “Dance (I)”, 1909
• A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of implied action.
Pablo Picasso, “Starry Night”, 1889
• size relationship of parts to a whole and to one another.
Leonardo da Vinci , “Vitruvian Man”, 1480
• Unity: The quality of wholeness or oneness; when the components of a work of art are perceived as harmonious, giving the work a sense of completion.
• Variety: adds interest by using contrasting elements within the composition; an assortment.
UNITY & VARIETY
Wasily Kandinsky, “Several Circles”, 1926
• • • Element occurring more than once Repetition with Variation is interesting, without variation repetition can become monotonous
• • The repetition of anything - shapes, lines, or colors in a planned way Also called a motif, in a design M.C. Escher, Path of Life III 1966 woodcut in red and black, printed from 2 blocks
• • • when two related elements are different. using opposing qualities next to each other. For example, black and white Contrast adds variety to the total design and creates unity.
Georges La tour, Joseph the Carpenter 1645, Louvre, Paris
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