TALKING ABOUT ART Elements of Art Principles of Art

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TALKING ABOUT ARTElements of ArtPrinciples of
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What makes up an art work?

• The Elements of art

color line texture value shape /form
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COLOR

• Color is very expressive and an exciting element
  of art. It appeals strongly to the senses and
  emotions.
• Color can communicate in all different ways, it
  can be very powerful thing in art work. Art works
  can communicate by color alone. It can cause
  emotional reactions.

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COLOR

• Primary colors-yellow, red and blue.
• (colors that can not be made by mixing other
  colors.
• Secondary colors- purple, green and orange
  (colors mixed from a combination of any two
  primary colors)
• Complimentary colors (colors found on the
  opposite on the color wheel.)

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• Monochromatic color scheme (uses only one color
  and tints and shades)
• Harmonious colors- colors that have something in
  common. One color will be in harmony with another.

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Primary colorsRoy Lichtenstein
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Secondary colors
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Complementary colorsGauguin
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Monochromatic color schemeEscher
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Color schemes
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Communicating with color

• Cool colors go away from you

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Marc Rothko

• Warm colours come towards you

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Rothko
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Lines

• Line in art may mean a single thin stroke
• It may signify the meeting edge of two areas
• It may refer to the contours as in sculpture
• Line can display strong suggestion of
• Movement
• Line can produce a sense of tranquility

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Line Clement Meadmore
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Linecan create volumeEscher
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Lines can create movement they can move
through an art workEscher
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Lines can create movementBrett Whiteley
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Brett Whiteley
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Lines create pattern and shapeJohn Olsen
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Value

• Value can be highly contrasted or graduated
• Can be created by using shading, line or dots.
• Lines can be used to create tone in hatching or
  cross-hatching
• Dots can be used to create tone.

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High Contrast or Graduated?
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Texture

• Read or Simulated
• Real texture are the textures that actually exist
  they are what you actually feel
• Simulated textures

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Texture

• Grained
• Rough
• Corrugated
• Smooth
• Furry
• Shiny
• prickly

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TextureVan Gogh
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Simulated textureimitates real textureMax Ernst
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Shape / Form

• A shape is an area that is defined in some way by
  a line, an edge, a colour or a texture. If we
  traced around its outline we would have a shape,
  silhouette
• Shapes are flat they have only two dimensions
  height and width
• Shapes can be geometric look as if they were
  made with a ruler.
• Organic irregular, uneven shapes of nature.

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Shape
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Shape / Form

• Forms, like shapes have height and width but they
  also have the third dimension depth. They are
  solid. They have volume and occupy space.
• Two dimension - painting
• Three dimension - a sculpture

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Elements of Art

• These five elements are the primary aspects of
  visual perception. Every artwork can be described
  by reference to these elements.
• For example, a work will have the presence of
  strong lines or absence of line. A work may be
  full of value contrast or graduated contrast.

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Principles of Design These are the nine main
principles of design

• Contrast
• Repetition
• Movement
• Rhythm
• Direction

• Space
• Balance
• Proportion
• Emphasis
• Unity

The artists use the principles to combine the
elements in a satisfying way.
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Ways to create space

• Divide the picture into the fore-ground, middle
  ground and background
• Strong details is used in the foreground, with
  gradual loss of detail as the image fades into
  the back ground
• Large objects in the fore ground graduating to
  smaller objects in the back ground
• Overlapping of objects give the appearance of
  objects being in front of each other
• Warm colors in the foreground and cool colors in
  the back ground

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DegasSpace
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How is space used?
Subway George Tooker
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Balance

• Refers to the distribution of weight in an art
  work so that no one part overpowers another or
  seems heavier that another.
• Artists may choose to create imbalance of a
  particular purpose.

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Mark Tansey A Brief History of Modernism
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Proportion

• The relationship between the size of the objects
  within an artwork.

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Emphasis

• An artist can create a centre of interest by
  allowing one area of an art work to dominate.

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Where is the emphasis?
Frida Khalo
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Contrast
Jacob Lawrence
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Repetition

• John Brack - Collins St 5pm

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Rhythm
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