Art Education

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

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