Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
- was an Italian polymath of
the High Renaissance who
was active as a painter,
draughtsman, engineer,
scientist, theorist, sculptor,
and architect.
Leonardo da Vinci
Bakit walang
kilay si
Mona Lisa?
Ang dahilan kung bakit
walang kilay si Mona
Lisa ay hindi dahil sa
nakalimutan itong ilagay
ni Da Vinci kundi dahil
sa ito ang sikat na
fashion na uso noon sa
mga kababaihan noong
panahong iyon. Uso
noon ang pag-ahit sa
kilay ng isang babae.
What is Art?
What is Art?
Creating
something without
words, something
that speaks to
people.
The Elements
and
Principles
of Art
Value Space
Texture
Elements Form
of Art
Color Line Shape
Types
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.
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. Joa
n
Mir
o
Gustave Caillebotte
Basic types of
shapes
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
Claude Foreground,
Monet Middleground and something) and Negative
Space is one of the basic elements of art.
It refers to the distance between or the
area around and within shapes, forms,
colors and lines. Space can be positive
or negative. It includes the background,
foreground and middle ground. Both
positive and negative space can play
important roles in the overall success of
a work of art.
Types of Space
TEXTURE
The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its
smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures
may be actual or implied.
Cecil
Buller
• Fine artists often
use texture in the
following ways to:
• create a focal
point
• add interest
• provide contrast
• visually balance
their compositions
There are two types of texture — tactile and visual.
Common Textures
Rough Smooth
The Principles of Art
What we use to organize the
Elements of Art,
or the tools to make art.
BALANCE
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
Three elements of art use in creating
emphasis through contrast.
Using texture in only color
one spot or placing a
light object in an value
otherwise dark
environment will attract texture
the attention of the
CONTRAST
A large difference between two
things to create interest and tension.
Salvador Dali
Ansel Adams
Contrast is simply defined as difference. Difference
between art elements like color, value, size, texture,
and so on can intensify the elements used
The problem lies in the use of value. There needs to be contrast in value
along with the contrast in color. If we change the values, not the colors,
the result is more successful...
RHYTHM
RHYTHM
RHYTHM
A regular repetition RHYTHM
of elements to
produce the look and RHYTHM
feel of movement. RHYTHM
and
Marcel Duchamp MOVEMENT
Rhythm is a principle of design that suggests movement or
action. Rhythm is usually achieved through repetition of lines,
shapes, colors, and more. It creates a visual tempo in
artworks and provides a path for the viewer’s eye to follow.
Vincent VanGogh
PATTERN
and Repetition Gustav Klimt
Repetition of a design.
Patterns are simply a repetition of more than
one design element working in concert with
each other.
Repetition is the use of two or more like
elements or forms within a composition. The
systematic arrangement of a repeated shapes or
forms creates pattern.
UNITY
When all the
elements and
principles
work together
to create a
pleasing
image. Johannes Vermeer
Unity (also called harmony) is an important
principle of design that gives the artwork a
sense of cohesion or coherence. It is the
wholeness or completeness of a picture.
Unity and harmony in art are used by artists
to tie a composition together and help the
composition make sense as a whole piece
of art.
Unity is a quality of wholeness and
oneness that is achieved by the
proper use of art elements and
principles.
Unity is both an idea of calmness,
simplicity, or repetition of the
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The use of
differences and
change to increase
the visual interest of
the work.
VAR IE T Y
Marc Chagall
Variety in art refers to the use of
different qualities or instances of
the visual elements. It is the
opposite of repetitive or
monotonous use of the
elements.
Below is a great demonstration of variety by Tom Thomson.
Notice all the different colors, lines, shapes, and brushwork.
The end result is pleasing and interesting to look at (the
goal of most paintings).
There are three primary ways you can
vary your use of color:
Value (how light or dark a color is);
Saturation (how rich, vivid or intense
a color is);
Hue (where a color is located on the
color wheel)
PROPORTIO N
The comparative relationship
of one part to another with
respect to size, quantity, or
degree; SCALE.
Gustave
Caillebotte
Proportion is the size relationship
between the various parts of an
artwork.
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