3 COMPONENTS OF ART  Free form and often one of a kind

1. TOPIC  Derived from nature and living organisms

 The “what” of the artwork  Associated with the things in the natural
 Starting poing of analyzing art world
 The person, thing or idea of the artwork  GEOMETRIC
 The artist’s interest in something  Basic shapes
2. CONTENT  Often man-made
 The “why” of the artwork  USES/FUNCTIONS:
 Emotional/intellectual message of the artwork 1. Create depth and perspective
 The reaction or statement of an artist 2. Lead the eye to the artwork/Control
 The idea behind the artwork Attention
3. FORM
 The “how” of the artwork 3) VALUE
 The use of the elements and principles of art to  Contrast or Lightness/darkness of a color
create and image  TYPES:
 The aesthetics or lack of it  LOW CONTRAST
 Techniques that the artist is using in the artwork  HIGH CONTRAST
 USES/FUNCTIONS:
ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART 1. As descriptor
 Gives or tells you “what” the object
1) LINE
2. As expression
 Continuous mark made on a surface by a moving
 Creating drama
point
 Photograph – tangible
 Can be used in many different ways: to suggest
 Image – visual representation
shape, pattern, form, structure, growth, depth,
distance, rhythm, movement and a range of
emotions.
4) TEXTURE
 Basic building block of an artwork  Look/feel of a surface
 TYPES:  Two ways:
 HORIZONTAL – rest or repose a) OPTICALLY (sight)
 VERTICAL – dignity, formality and strength b) PHYSICALLY (touch)
 DIAGONAL – action and excitement  Either be made from an actual object, be
 ZIGZAG – confusion or action simulated or from imagination
 CURVED – grace and beauty; play, sensuality  TYPES:
and eroticism  ACTUAL
 JAGGED – turmoil and anxiety  It is what it is
a) Line and Shape  The supposed texture
b) Line and Value  SIMULATED
c) Line and Texture  Makes things identifiable
d) Line and Color  Gives you an idea of the texture, not the
 MEDITATION actual
 PERFORMANCE ART - Artist is included  ABSTRACT
 Eyes create shapes
 Has decorative nature/used for decoration
2) SHAPE
 Accept or deminish object
 Formed by 2 intersecting lines
 INVENTED
 When the beginning of a line connects
 Purely from the imagination
 With its own end or intersects with another
 Not based on anything
 Indicated the general outline of an object
 Flat and 2D (length and width)
5) COLOR
 TYPES:
 ORGANIC  Light waves absorbs/reflected by everything
around
  White light that is refracted by an object  SHARP AND DIMINISHING DETAIL – far-less
 Subjective to the taste of the audience detail
 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES:  CONVERGING PARALLELS
 HUE  LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
 Pureness of a color  TYPES:
 Designated name of the color in the a) ONE-POINT
spectrum -HORIZON LINE: the curvature of the
 VALUE Earth, not the end.
 Addition of black and white -the object does not distort
 Darkest to lightest b) TWO-POINT
 Black and white does not change a color’s -another point in the horizon line
hue
 SATURATION c) THREE-POINT
 The vividness/dullness of a color -view object on top/below
 Brighter tones to duller tones -bird’s/worm’s eye view
 COLOR ORGANIZATIONS:
 ADDITIVE COLOR MIXING 7) FORM
 SUBTRACTIVE COLOR MIXING  Volume of a shape meaning its height, width,
 TRIADIC COLOR and length
 Split complementary color  Sculpture, 3D design and architecture but may
combinations also relate to the illusion of 3D on a 2D surface.
 TETRADIC COLOR SCHEME  Accumulation of all elements, principles, and
 1 Primary + 1 Secondary + 2 components of art
Intermediate Colors  TYPES:
 ANALOGOUS COLOURS  2D
 Appear next to each other in the  Makes an illusion of being 3D through the
color wheel application of various visual elements and
 MONOCHROMATIC COLORS techniques
 Uses only one color but explores  Flat surface that tricks the eye into thinking
the complete range from white to that an artwork has realistic volume.
black  3D
 WARM AND COOL COLORS  Can be created through sculptural mediums
 NEUTRAL COLORS – complement both like wood, clay, marble, etc.
warm and cool (green, violet)  Cam also be kinetic, which involves
 SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST movement that is made through natural,
 Change of a color when they are put side by mechanical, electronic methods.
side to each other
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
6) SPACE 1. HARMONY
 Area where the artwork is organized 2. EMPHASIS
 Encompasses the area within a work of art and 3. MOVEMENT
can also include the area immediately outside of
4. RHYTHM
and around a work of art.
5. REPETITION
 TYPES:
 NEGATIVE – around and between the subject
6. UNITY
 POSITIVE – inside the subject 7. BALANCE
 SPATIAL INDICATORS: 8. PROPORTION
 SIZE – large or small
 POSITION – location
 TRANSPARENCY – faded/not
 FRACTIONAL REPRESENTATION - parts