GART • WARM or COOL

E. VALUE
SEVEN DA VINCIAN PRINCIPLES • refers to the light and dark areas of a picture
• Michael J. Gelb “How to think like Leonardo • creates depth within a picture making of an
Da Vinci” object: HIGHLIGHTS and SHADOWS
F. TEXTURE
1. CURIOSITA • surface quality
• desire to know G. SPACE
• quest for truth or beauty • the distance within an object
• curiosity • POSITIVE; NEGATIVE; COMPOSITION
2. DIMOSTRAZIONE (organization of elements in an artwork;
• experience FOCAL POINT
3. SENZAZIONE
H. PERSPECTIVE
• refine seven senses
• deals with the effect of distance upon the
4. SFUMATO
• embrace uncertainties
appearance of objects
5. ARTE SCIENZA • LINEAR PERSPECTIVE = meant to create an
• art or science illusion of space; according to how we see;
• whole being painting fixed point of view
6. CORPOSALITA • ATMOSPHERE PERSPECTIVE = aerial
• mind & body care perspective; reflects how we see objects that
7. CONNESSIONE are close in nature
• pure connectedness

ELEMENTS OF ART
A. LINE
• a “dot that moves” or “continuous mark”
• describes a shape or outline
• straight; curved; vertical; horizontal; jagged;
or dotted
• DYNAMIC = suggests force in motion: curved
lines; repeating lines; contrasting lines
B. SHAPE
• an enclosed space defined by other art
elements: line; color; texture
• it is two dimensional
• GEOMETRIC = circles, squares, rectangles,
triangles
• ORGANIC = leaves, seashells. flowers: free
flowing or irregular shapes
• POSITIVE SHAPES = solid forms in a design
• NEGATIVE SHAPES = it is the space around
the positive shape
C. FORM
• appear three dimensionally: cube; sphere,
pyramid or cylinder
• GEOMETRIC or ORGANIC
D. COLOR