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Elements and Principles of Arts

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The Elements

and
Principles
The Elements of Art

The building blocks


or ingredients of art.
LINE

A mark with length and direction.


A continuous mark made on a surface
by a moving point.

Ansel Adams Gustave Caillebotte


Pablo Picasso
COLOR

Consists of Hue (another word for color),


Intensity (brightness) and Value (lightness
or darkness).

Alexander Calder

Henri Matisse
VALUE

The lightness or darkness of a color.

MC Escher Pablo Picasso


SHAPE

An enclosed area defined and determined


by other art elements; 2-dimensional.

Joan
Gustave Caillebotte
FORM

A 3-dimensional object;
or something in a 2-dimensional artwork
that appears to be 3-dimensional.

For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a


shape, but a pyramid, which is 3-dimensional, is a form.

Jean Arp Lucien Freud


S PAC E
The distance or area between, around, above, below,
or within things.

Robert Mapplethorpe
Positive (filled with
something) and Negative
Claude Foreground,
Mone Middleground and (empty areas).
Background
t (creates DEPTH)
TEXTURE

The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its


smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures
may be actual or implied.
Cecil
Buller
The Principles of
Art
What we use to organize the
Elements of Art,
or the tools to make art.
B AL A N C E

The way the elements are arranged to


create a feeling of stability in a
work.

Alexander Calder
Symmetrical Balance

The parts of an image are organized


so that one side mirrors the other.

Leonardo DaVinci
Asymmetrical Balance

When one side of a composition does


not reflect the design of the other.

James Whistler
EMPHASIS

The focal point of an


image, or when one
area or thing stand
out the most.

Jim Dine Gustav Klimt


CONTRAST

A large difference between two


things to create interest and tension.

Salvador Dali
Ansel Adams
RHYTHM

RHYTHM
A regular repetition
of elements to
produce the look and RHYTHM
feel of movement.
RHYTHM
and
Marcel MOVEMENT
RHYTHM
Duchamp
Vincent VanGogh
PATTERN
and Repetition Gustav Klimt

Repetition of a design.
UNITY

When all the


elements and
principles
work together
to create a
pleasing
image.
Johannes Vermeer
The use of
differences and
change to increase
the visual interest of
the work.

VAR T
IE Y
Marc Chagall
PROPORTIO N

The comparative
relationship of one part to
another with respect to size,
quantity, or degree; SCALE.

Gustave

Caillebotte
The end
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