Elements of Art:
- Elements: Research & Documentation: Line
- Description: Line is a moving point in space. It is a simple function that can build complex structures, implying or describing something in the mind’s view.
- Horizontal lines represent distance, like the horizon. It is solid and not moving.
- Vertical lines represent height, like pillars. It is uniform and definite.
- Horizontal and vertical lines used in combination set a scene of stability. Both have substantial qualities.
- Diagonal lines represent movement, like rain. It is falling, and not quite constrained to a vertical or horizontal line.
- The curve of a line directs the eye to follow it. It allows for a path, and a destination.
- Source: The way the image is drawn may also represent what the art is supposed to mean. Freehand lines show the artists raw emotion. Continuous lines draw the eyes attention, whereas broken lines would represent something insubstantial. Thick lines have strength and thin lines show delicacy.
- Description: Line is a moving point in space. It is a simple function that can build complex structures, implying or describing something in the mind’s view.
- Elements: Research & Documentation: Shape
- Description: Limited to length and width, shape is the construction of lines to represent a bigger and more relatable image.
- Getty
- Shape has a set boundaries, and is contained. It is constructed, or implied, in the mind.
- Geometric shapes and forms are man-made, such as rectangles, squares, hexagons. They are definite and recognizable.
- Organic shapes and forms have nature-like qualities, or are found in nature. They have irregularities and variety.
- Getty
- Source: Shapes that are seen in an artwork may have a differing impression on the viewer, such as circles or ellipses flowing, but squares and rectangles show stability. There is many types of shape that make up art. To name a few: Two Dimensional Shapes, Three Dimensional Shapes, Representational Shapes, Abstract Shapes, Geometric Shapes, Organic Shapes, Symbolic and Decorative Shapes, Positive and Negative Shapes, Transparent, Reflective and Opaque Shapes.
- 2D shapes are typically drawn on paper or canvass with perspective in mind when drawing, or simply abstract.
- 3D shapes may be in sculpture, where the viewer is able to walk around and perceive the art from differing perspectives.
- Representational shapes are good at reproducing images the eye sees, whether it be in realism art, or others such as impressionism.
- Abstract shapes warp perspectives and previous allusions as to what the image should look like when drawn.
- Geometric shapes are man-made constructions used in many of the art forms. It may be used differently to each, but recognizable in all of them.
- Organic shapes each have a unique quality, and are free-form and flowing.
- Symbolic and Decorative Shapes are instantly recognizable for the most part, and widely known, such as the religious or cultural symbols.
- Positive Shapes are what is physically present, and Negative Shapes is using the space around it to imply form.
- Transparent Shapes allow light to pass through them. Reflective Shapes mirror what light hits them. Opaque Shapes let light pass through but some is absorbed, and not as much is clearly visible.
- Description: Limited to length and width, shape is the construction of lines to represent a bigger and more relatable image.
- Elements: Research & Documentation: Form
- Description: Has length, width, and height, and conveys a depth perception according to point of view. It may be free flowing as well.
- Getty
- Form is the construction of a scene, contained in the mind, and implied in the art. It uses techniques to insinuate the ideas, and allow the mind to connect them. It may be angular geometric figures, or organic figures.
- Getty
- Source: Form is the 3d (“real world” manifestations) of art, or the 2d representations of a 3 dimensional image via manipulation of the visual arts. The art may be structured in the real world (junk art) or be painted using styles, such as shading, vanishing point(s), color, space, shapes, even lines. Multiple elements work together in art.
- Description: Has length, width, and height, and conveys a depth perception according to point of view. It may be free flowing as well.
- Elements: Research & Documentation: Space
- Description: The positive and negative space are able to construct a deeper image or meaning when the artists uses them for a reason.
- Getty
- Positive and negative space, or the difference between them, relays an emotion. It does this by giving off a visual representation of perception, and connects that location with color, or the absence of color.
- Three-dimensional space is the artist capturing a point of view. This point of view is able to represent depth of space, and allows for a mental construction of the location to form. Artists aspire to achieve perfect representation of it.
- Source: You may use space by overlapping objects, size of objects, placement, details, perspective, and the color and value of figures or backgrounds. The objects may appear bigger, smaller, out of focus, three dimensional off (a) vanishing point(s), darker or lighter when different locations in space want to be emulated.
- Getty
- Description: The positive and negative space are able to construct a deeper image or meaning when the artists uses them for a reason.
- Elements: Research & Documentation: Value
- Description: Black is the darkest, gray is the medium, and white is the lightest. Value is added and weighed in art to portray the artists intention.
- Getty
- Value has the ability to direct emotion in one form or another. When seeing the value, it is instantly weighed unconsciously. This first perception has an effect on how the content of the art is taken.
- Getty
- Source: The value, otherwise know as tone, of a picture is used as a whole to subtly effect the final project. Quite simply put, a happy picture will be brighter and a deeper, sad picture will be darker. Tone is also a way to make the painting, such as pointillism and depth perception using darker shades.
- Description: Black is the darkest, gray is the medium, and white is the lightest. Value is added and weighed in art to portray the artists intention.
- Elements: Research & Documentation: Texture
- Description: A construction of visual quality that is closely linked to the sense of touch, relaying the tactility of the art optically.
- Getty
- Texture adds another suggestion of sensory input to the art. When seeing how the content is effected by light, spacial location, and form, it allows for the mind to construct a idea of the texture. The small details process and the feel of the art is acquired.
- Getty
- Source: The roughness or smoothness of the visualized object in the artwork is dependent upon how the artist chooses to stylize and emulate texture. There are many techniques, the more physical rough brush strokes do well to show this. Shadows and lighting may optically convey smooth or roughness. The third one is hard to explain; if the object is subject to change, such as clouds or water or bubbles, then Ephemeral Texture is used.
- Description: A construction of visual quality that is closely linked to the sense of touch, relaying the tactility of the art optically.
Type Artifact: I started going through fonts and I landed on Palatino. I admired the smooth flow of this text and decided to go with it. My additions gently evolved into clockwise spirals off of the letter forms, and I thought of the ocean. I added some color, made a few corrections, and there you have it. I made this art to purely accentuate the style. I also made gentle optimizations to the font by outlining it and smoothing it to mesh with my spirals. |
- Elements: Research & Documentation: Type
- Description: That of which something is symbolized or figured; in writing.
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- Type is one of the elements of art, because typography and even the font are influential graphics. There are many styles and many uses.
- Examples
- Typography and the letters themselves may be used in art or as art. Be it subtle or emphasized, the words are included in or make up the art.
- Helpful typography words
- Distinction between font and typeface
- Paragraph words: Rags, Widows, & Orphans
- Source
- Description: That of which something is symbolized or figured; in writing.
Color Artifact: I browsed the site for inspiration and I saw the “color as movement” example by Victor Vasarely and I got a little zap. The spark moved through my finger tips and onto the canvass faster than you could say Vonal KSZ. |
- Elements: Research & Documentation: Color
- Description: Hue, Value, and Intensity are used to describe color. Color is the visual make up of art.
- Tom Jewette and Getty
- Hue is the base name given to a color (red, green, blue, etc.)
- Value is the brightness, adding or subtracting amounts of black. Using extremes of both in a canvass would accentuate the other in turn. The relationship is very embedded into culture: good/bad, light/dark etc.
- Intensity describes the strength of a color. Low intensity would be gray and drab, and high intensity would be pure and vivid.
- Source: Color is formatted as RGB and the mix of RGB. And there is wheels to show the relationships and expanse, such as the HSB wheel. Color also can be used in a picture with other colors analogous to it, complementary colors, or just a set of colors found in nature. Colors can be viewed completely different depending on the color surrounding it or next to it.
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Principles of Design:
Source: (Marvin Bartel) Principles can be used to describe 2 things. For one, it can describe something that typically happens in artwork, like a rule or law. The second is something for the artist to use when making decisions, like an objective or an intention.
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/Compose.htm from Marvin Bartel – See more at: http://www.incredibleart.org/files/elements2.htm#sthash.6JXbHcPf.dpuf
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/Compose.htm from Marvin Bartel – See more at: http://www.incredibleart.org/files/elements2.htm#sthash.6JXbHcPf.dpuf
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/Compose.htm from Marvin Bartel – See more at: http://www.incredibleart.org/files/elements2.htm#sthash.6JXbHcPf.dpuf
- Principles: Research & Documentation: Balance
- Principles: Research & Documentation: Alignment
Emphasis Artifact: This green cube is greatly accentuated by the bland background. |
- Principles: Research & Documentation: Emphasis
- Source: Emphasis
- Principles: Research & Documentation: Proportion
- Principles: Research & Documentation: Movement
- Principles: Research & Documentation: Pattern
- Principles: Research & Documentation: Contrast
- Principles: Research & Documentation: Unity
Color:
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Color as light
Color as tone
Color as pattern
Color as form
Color as symbol
Color as movement
Color as harmony
Color as contrast
Color as mood
- Color: Research & Documentation: