ART 111 ART APPRECIATION PRINCIPLES OF ART SPRING 2012 Chapter
2 The Language of Art & Architecture
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Color All of the colors are derived from the three primary
colors (red, blue, and yellow) and black and white. Color has three
properties: hue, value, and intensity. Ojibwe beadwork
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Hue Name and properties of a color
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Value Relative Light and Darkness Local Value (Rendering)
Created Value (Modeling)
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Color Systems Additive red + green + blue = white Subtractive
magenta + yellow + cyan = black
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Learn the Color Wheel
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Primary Color
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Secondary Colors
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Tertiary Colors
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Complementary Contrasts Opposite colors are complementary
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Analogous Colors Are beside each other on the color wheel
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Tints & Shades Visualize the color wheel created in
different ways
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Do colors have personality ?
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Warm & Cool
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PRINCIPLES OF ART Composition Composition - the arrangement of
formal elements in a work of art. Pattern/Repetition Balance
Rhythm/Movement Proportion & Scale Emphasis Unity/Harmony
Variety/Contrast
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Pattern & Repetition Pattern refers to the repetition or
reoccurrence of a design element, exact or varied, which
establishes a visual beat. Blanket Tlingit people, Chilkat style.
Mountain goat wool and cedar bark, 31" 71", excluding fringe.
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Pattern may Pattern may function as decoration. Pattern Pattern
helps organize ideas into visual diagrams that make relationships
clear. Functions
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Rhythm & Movement Rhythm or Movement refers to the
suggestion of motion through the use of various elements Time and
Motion, particularly in photography, film, kinetic sculpture and
performance art are directly related to this principle. Nude
Descending a Staircase (No. 2), Marcel Duchamp1912. Oil on canvas,
57 7/8" 35 1/8"
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. Film: Race Horse First Film Ever 1878 Eadweard Muybridge Race
Horse First Film Ever 1878 Eadweard Muybridge Performance: The
Lovers, 2005, Bill Viola The Lovers, 2005, Bill Viola Sculpture
Theo Jansen's Object which I made with paper Theo Jansen's Object
which I made with paper Kinetic Art Examples
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Balance Balance - Balance - placing elements so that their
visual weights seem evenly distributed. Types of balance:
Symmetrical: exact or even balance of objects or activity in a
composition (mirror images) Asymmetrical: careful distribution of
uneven elements. counterbalanced with contrasts such as dull and
bright colors, dark with light values, geometric with organic
shapes, active and inactive areas Radial: objects or activity
rotating around a center point
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Symmetrical Balance Cows Skull: Red, White, and Blue, 1931,
Georgia OKeefe, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 35 7/8 inches. A tile from
The Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, 1634-1635 A.D
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Asymmetrical Balance Relativity, 1953, M.C. Escher, lithograph,
10.9x11.5 inches Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red, 193742,
Piet Mondrian, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 69 cm
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Radial Symmetry Interior of the Rose Stain Glass window at
Strasbourg Cathedral. Strasbourg Cathedral, 1015-1439, Strasbourg,
France, architecture, 142 m (466 ft) Worlds tallest building from
1647 to 1874
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Symmetry in Architecture Video Taj Mahal, 16321653, Agra,
India, 171 m (561 ft)
