3. Informal balance: typically asymmetrical, creates interest and varietyThe Girl with the Red Hat Jan Vermeer Oil on panel, 1665
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5. We are led around and through the composition by any one of several devices—colors, lines, or shapes—that connect various elements. The Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh Oil on canvas, 1889
6. The Creation of Adam; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Fresco, 1511 Artists use combinations of the different art elements to cause the viewer’s eyes to move or sweep over a composition in a particular manner. Our eyes are directed to a focal point, or they sweept along an important visual channel that includes all areas of the picture plane and leaves no dead or void spots. To do this, the artist exploits the direction of a line or utilizes the compelling force of a path made by repeated shapes or colors. Movement Gives life to an artwork
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9. Repetition Rhythm Pattern Repetition in the world of nature and art forms rhythm and pattern Just as the repeated beat of a drum is rhythm, so the repetition of line, shape, and color creates a visual rhythm. Rhythm can create an exciting visual beat for our eyes to follow. Golconde; Rene Magritte; 1953, oil on canvas
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11. Artists usually try to avoid creating too many focal points in an artwork, since this tends to be confusing.The Swing; Jean-Honore Fragonard; Oil on canvas, 1767
24. Shape A shape may be called a visually perceived area of value, color, texture or line– or any combination of these elements. Yellow, Red, Blue; Wassily Kandinsky; Oil on canvas, 1925 When a line moves through space until it meets itself and forms an enclosure, it becomes a shape, form or mass There are two types of shapes: Biomorphic: related to nature, curved, rounded, soft edged, often asymmetrical Geometric: precise, hard edged, squared, has straight lines, angles, usually symmetrical, generally man or machine made
25. Space The distance of area between, around, above, below or within shapes. Three dimensional space has height, width, and depth, it is actual space. Such works can be viewed from many angles and will appear different from each view. Two dimensional space is used for art works created on flat surfaces, such as drawings, paintings and prints. These forms have only height and width, with no actual depth. The implied depth or space portrayed in the work is the pictorial space or picture plane. Galatea Of The Spheres; Salvador Dali; Oil on canvas, 1952
26. The kiss; Gustav Klimt; oil and gold leaf on canvas, 1907 Implied/ Simulated texture: has the same feel as the surface but looks different (surface may be smooth but look like wood, bark, stone Actual texture: what is actually felt—rough, smooth, matt, uneven, etc. Impasto: refers to this thick application of paint to a ground. Looks and feels heavy, rough to the touch, can be up to 1 inch think Trompe Le Oel: refers to the style of painting that emphasizes photographic realism of detail, while maintaining a relatively smooth, glassy surface Texture Texture is the element that is concerned with how things feel or look as if they might feel on the surface.
27. Light or high values are closer to white, and low or dark values are closer to black. The manipulation and arrangement of light and dark within an artwork is sometimes called “chiaroscuro”—chiaro means light and oscuro means dark. Venice Twilight; Claude Monet; Oil on canvas, 1908 Value Contrast between light and dark
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