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Art Education
Elements of Art Principles of Design Criticizing an Artwork Art Anything that shows or conveys ideas, feeling or experiences Helps appreciate what is around you It is everywhere Part of our daily lives Includes belief and religion Art The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power The various branches of creative activity such as painting, music, literature and dance Art Subjects of study primarily concerned with the processes and products of human creativity and social life. A skill at doing a specified thing, typically one acquired through practice Art is… Communication Decorates Creates living spaces Records and celebrates events Art Elements Lines Vary in length, width, direction, color or the way they are bend or curved Vertical, horiontal, diagonal Rhytmic; spiral, zigzag or wavy Lines make shapes and shapes makes lines Shape Geometric or free-form Flat and have height and width When a line comes around to me it self at its starting point Shape Geometric Exact shapes Usually found in man-made objects Form 3-D Free-form (organic) Made up of curving irregular lines Natural environment Texture Actual, artificial or visual the way a surface looks or feels Surface quality of an object Smooth, rough, course, fine Sight and touch senses Texture Actual You can touch or feel Artificial Man-made surface qualities that are supposed to look like and like some material Visual Textures that our eyes see but cannot be touched or felt Space Negative or positve Seen inside or outside a shape Color Primary • Intermediate Red, yellow, B + V = BV blue R + V = RV Secondary R + O = RO O=r+y G = b +y V=r+b Properties of a Color Hue Properties of a color Hue (name) Value (lightness and darkness) Intensity (brightness and dullnes
• Tins – if you put white
• Shade – if you put black Color Properties Analogous Colors that are close together in the Color Wheel Yellow, Yellow-Green, Green Complimentary Two colors that are directly across from one another in the color wheel Red and Green Contrasting colors Color Properties Split Complimentary Harmony Combination of a color and the two color on either side of its compliment Yellow and Violet (complimet) Yellow = Blue Violet and Red Violet (Split) Monochromatic Harmony Harmony of one color and it variations. Monochrome means one single color Hue can be change in may ways (shade to tint) Principles of Design Balance Quality makes the composition of an artwork stable Feeling of rest When two sides of a picture are exactly alike Sense of evenness Symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial Balance Symmetrical Contents on either side of a center line are exactly the same (miror) Asymmetrical Two sides of an artwork are not exactly alike but still appears pleasingly balance Radial Balance based on a circle which lines extending from central point Patterns Shapes that are repeated in form Rhythm Lines that seem to move Criticizing an Artwork Studying, understanding and judging an artwork Description Size of the artwork, the medium and the process used The subject, object and details (Subject – the image viewers can easily identify in an art work) “what do I see when I look at an artwork?” Wh- questions.. Analysis Focus is on composition (composition is the way art principles are used to organize the art elements.) The question of style (style is an artist personal way of using the elements and principles of art and expressing feeling and ideas in art) The elements used in the work Interpretation Determine how time and place may have affected the artist style Work’s Content (content – the message, idea or feeling expressed by an artwork ) Based on personal opinions and experiences Judgement “Is this a successful work of art?” (aesthetic view – an idea or school of thought, on what is important in a work of art. If the work and its artist make an important contribution to art Introducing new materials or perfecting a style Media of Art Media of Art Media used in drawing, painting and printmaking Medium of Art A material used to create an artwork or work of art Mixed Media The used of more than one medium of a work of art Drawing Pen, pencils, charcoal, chalk Purpose of Drawing Create finished work of art Help to plan projects Painting Three Basic Parts of a Paint Pigment Finely colored powder that give its color Binder A liquid that holds the grains of pigment (stick to surface) Solvent A material used to thin a paint binder (thins and thicks) Example. Turpentine (oil paint) and water Painting Media Oil Paint Takes its name from its binder (linseed oil) Turpentine as a solvent Dries slowly, so that the artist is able to blend color right on the canvas Tempera Some earliest painting on record were made with tempera A mixture of pigment, egg yolk and water Painting Media Water Color Name for its solvent Binder – gum arabic (a gummy plant matter) Gives painting a light misty quality Acrylic Quick drying water-based paint Popular medium among painters Synthetic or manufactured 1950’s Very easy to use because of its solvent Painting Media Print Making A technique in which inverted image from a prepared surface is transferred into another surface, such as paper or fabric
3 Steps in Print Making
- Creating a printing plate - Applying ink to the plate - Transferring the ink to the paper cloth by pressing the plate against the surface *Edition – a series of identical prints made from a single plate
Applied Design for Printers
A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing
Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43
Applied Design for Printers
A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing
Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43
