Famous Paintings andThe Principles of ArtPaintings you’ll see again and again…..

Taking notes “from”

picturesDo a thumbnail sketch. Draw a 2” x 2” box and

QUICKLY sketch the major details of the picture.

You want to sketch enough that the thumbnail

will trigger a memory of the actual picture

Include the artist’s name

Include the name of the piece

The Elements of Art

The Elements of Art are like the tools an artist

uses to create a work of art. The Elements are:

LINE

SHAPE/FORM

VALUE

TEXTURE

COLOR

The Principles of Art

The Principles are the rules of art. These rules

apply to how the artist uses the tools of art…oh’

yeah…line ,shape/form, color, value and texture.

BALANCE

PROPORTION

RHYTHM

MOVEMENT

VARIETY

CONTRAST

UNITY

EMPHASIS

BALANCE

VISUAL EQUALIBRIUM – The sense of stability

Symmetrical

Asymmetrical

radial

symmetrical

Leonardo da VinciThe Last Supper

Salvador DaliThe Persistence of Memory

asymmetrical

Leonardo da Vinci

Vitruvian Man

PROPORTION

THE RELATIONSHIP OF SIZES

Pablo PicassoPortrait of Olga in the Armchair

Pablo Picasso

The Dream

James Abbott McNeill WhistlerArrangement in Grey

and Black

Rhythm

Repetition of any of the elements – usually color,

shape and value.

Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night

Claude Monet

Poplars

MOVEMENT

Directs the viewer’s eye through the picture

plane

Franz Marc

Fighting Forms

Vincent Van Gogh

Wheat field with Cypress

Trees

VARIETY

Differences in the elements. Different colors,

textures, shapes, sizes create interest.

Andy Warhol9 Marilyns

Georgia O’Keeffe

Oriental Poppies

CONTRAST

A big difference in any of the elements

Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa

Georgia O’KeeffeCow Skull:Red, White and Blue

EMPHASIS

Points of interest that pull the viewer’s eye to the

important parts of the work

Andy Warhol

Campbell’s Soup I

Jan Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Rene Magritte

The Son of Man

UNITY

All parts of a work seen as a whole.

Gustav Klimt

The Kiss

Claude Monet

Water Lilies

Edvard Munch

The Scream