Elements and Principles of Art

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Elements and Principles of Art
Lesson
Introduction
Test
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Introduction

• Name Kelsey Poorman
• Subject Arts- Visual Arts
• Grade Level Grade 1
• Standard Creative Expression and Communication
• Benchmark Use the elements and principles of art
  as a means to express ideas, emotions and
  experiences.
• Indicators
• Identify visual art elements and principles using
  art vocabulary.
• Use selected art elements and principles to
  express a personal response to the world.

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Lesson

• What are the elements and principles of art?
• The elements and principles of art are building
• blocks for all visual art.
• Knowing the elements and principles of design
• provides students with the necessary vocabulary
  to
• effectively analyze and discuss artwork.

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The Elements

• Form

• Line

• The underlying
• structure or composition
• in a work of art.

• The path traced by a moving point.

• Can be implied.

• The shape or outline
• of something in three dimensions.

• Varying widths heavy, thin

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The Elements

• Color

• Shape

• Primary Red, Yellow Blue

• The general outline of something.

• Secondary Orange, Purple Green

Geometric

• Tint/shade

Organic
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The Elements

• Space
• Created by the merging, touching and intersecting
  of lines.
• Actual space- two or three dimensional
• Pictorial space- flat surface of the paper,
  canvas or other material. Also known as picture
  plane.
• Positive/negative

• Texture
• The qualities of a surface.
• Can be actual or implied
• Soft or rough

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THE PRINCIPLES

• Unity
• The arrangement of elements into a unified whole
  or oneness in a composition.

• Balance
• The arrangement of a composition. When the eye is
  attracted equally to the various imaginary axes
  of a composition.

• Rhythm, balance and
• proportion help establish
• unity.

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The Principles

• Proportion
• The size relationships within a composition.

• Rhythm
• Controlled movements
• Beat and flow

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Test
Question 1
What are the art elements?
Space Texture Color Shape Form Line
Balance Rhythm Unity Proportion
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TEST
Question 2
What element or principle is strongest in this
artwork?
Line
Texture
Unity
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TEST
Question 3
What are the primary colors?
Green Purple Yellow
White Red Blue
Red Yellow Blue
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Resources
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Resources

• Hurwitz, D. Day, M. (2007). Children and their
  art
• Methods for the elementary school. California
  Thomson Wadsworth

• Ohio Department of Education. Retrieved March 1,
  2008 from http//www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates
  /Pages/ODE/ODE DefaultPage.aspx?page1.
• For more on the elements and principles visit
  Arts Connected.Org