Ms. Aixa RodriguezUnit 1 ESL/Visual Arts

High School of World CulturesBronx, NY

Art A visual statement that

represents the world around you, communicates an idea, expresses a feeling or present an interesting design.

ArtistA person who uses imagination and skill to communicate ideas in visual form.

What is fine art?Fine art refers to art that is valued solely for its visual appeal or its success in communicating ideas or feelings.

What is applied art?Applied art refers to art that is

made to be functional as well as visually pleasing.

Visual Culture The visual statements you find in your environment

every day. Paintings , books, chairs, videogames advertisements

everything one sees, has seen or may imagine. The internet, movies, toys, fashion and cars as well as

fine arts are all part of one’s visual culture.

Perceive To be come aware through the senses fo the special

nature of objects. Using sight hearing touch smell and tast to pereceiv

an object increases your understanding of it. Artists must strengthen their perception to interpret

what they see in the world around them.

•The fundamentals or vocabulary of the artist’s language.

•The basic visual components that an artist uses to create visual art.

•Line, color, value, shape, form, space, and texture

A mark with length and direction.

A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.

Ansel Adams

Gustave Caillebotte

Line Lines can be described as

having/being length and width short/long, thick/thin, dark/light, blurred/uneven, sharp/clear.

The style where lines are emphasized is called “linear”. Self Portrait of

Pablo Picasso

Kinds of lines Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curved zigzag.

Pablo Picasso

COLOR•Consists of

•Hue (name for the color)

•Intensity (brightness)

•Value (lightness or darkness).

Henri Matisse

Venice Twilight by Claude Monet

Color Theory• Hue Hue : name for the color

• Intensity: Intensity: brightness or dullness of a hue.

• Bright pure hues are called high-intensity high-intensity colors

• Dull hues are called low-intensity low-intensity colors.

• ValueValue : : lightness or darkness of a hue.

• When white is added to a hue the result is a tint.tint.

• When black is added to a hue the result is a shade.shade.

Color Primary colors are basic colors that can not be obtained by mixing. They are red, yellow, and blue.

Secondary colors: are obtained by mixing primary colors. They are orange, green, and purple.

Tertiary or Intermediate Colors: in between primary and secondary colors on the color wheel, have more of a primary color in them. They are: red-orange, yellow-green, blue-green etc.

The Color Wheel The color wheel is a tool

to help you organize colors, mix colors and compare colors.

Colors across from each other on the wheel are complementary colors.

Colors next to each other within the same family are analogous colors.

The lightness or darkness of a color.

MC Escher Pablo Picasso

An area clearly set off by one or more of the other six visual elements of art. They have height and width but not depth. Shapes are flat, 2 dimensional.

Joan Miro

Shape Shape is an a element that

artists use to convey their message or visual statement.

Geometric shapes: Geometric shapes: precise mathematical shapes ex; circle, square, triangle.

Free-form or organic Free-form or organic shapes shapes ex: outline/contour of a lake. Balancement by Wassily

Kandinsky

FORM A 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional

Cylinder, cube, cone, pyramid, free-form form

Jean Arp

Gustave Caillebotte

The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.

Linear perspective- the lines of buildings roads and similar objects are slanted to make them appear to come together or meet in the distance.

Size- objects in the foreground (front) are made bigger than objects in the background.

Overlapping- nearer shapes and forms overlap or partly cover those meant to appear farther away.

Placement- distant objects are placed higher up in the picture.

Foreground, Middle ground and Background (creates DEPTH)

La Rue de la Bavolle in Honfleur by Claude Monet.

Space

Space Positive space filled with something Negative empty spaces between the shapes or forms

in two and three dimensional art. Intensity and value- the colors of objects meant to

appear in the distance are lower in intensity than those of objects meant to appear nearer. They are also lighter in value.

Detail- more detail is added to closer objects and less detail is added to those in the distance

TEXTURETEXTURE

•The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc.

•Textures may be actual or implied.

Cecil Buller

Texture- the element of art that refers to how things feel, or look as though they might feel , if touched. Visual texture- is texture you experience with your eyes as you remember them from experience. Ex. Paintings of velvet, leather, silk or concrete.

What we use to organize the Elements of Art,

or the tools to make art.

Principle of art concerned with arranging the elements so that no one part of the work overpowers, ore seems heaver than, any other part.

Alexander Calder

Balance

Formal balance is dignified, stable, more static and symmetrical.

Informal balance is asymmetrical.

The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

Symmetrical BalanceThe parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other.

Leonardo DaVinci

AsymmetricalAsymmetrical Balance BalanceWhen one side of a composition does not reflect the design of the other.

James Whistler

Radial Balance When the elements of art or object in an artwork

radiate or come out from a central point.

The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most.

Jim Dine Gustav Klimt

Emphasis Emphasis is a principle

that captures your eye when you first see an art piece.

The focal point or center of attention.

The Herring Net by Winslow Homer

CONTRAST A large difference between two things to create interest and tension.

Ansel AdamsSalvador Dali

The principle of art that indicates movement through the repetition of elements and objects.

Marcel Duchamp

Movement The principle of art that

leads the viewer to see action in a work, also the path that the viewers eye follows through the work.

Movement is the principle of giving life to an artwork.

The artist makes a compelling path through repeated line, color, and shapes.

Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David

Vincent VanGogh

Gustav Klimt

PATTERN-Two dimensional, decorative visual repetition.

-Motif- unit of repetition in a visual pattern.

Repetition Repetition is a principle

that can be simple or complex.

Repetition of line shape and color creates a visual rhythm.

A pattern or motif also results from repetition.

Repeated patterns also show order.

Unity Unity is the

arrangement of elements and principles of art to creat a feeling of completeness or wholeness.

Irises by Vincent van Gogh

HarmonyA principle of design where elements of art are combined to accent their similarities and bind the picture parts into a whole. Sandy Skoglund

Variety

The use of differences and

change to increase the visual interest of

the work.

Marc Chagall

Variety Variety is a principle

that uses differences and contrasts between elements to bring an art piece to life.

Variety brings life and attention to an art piece.

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

•The comparative relationship of one part to another with respect to size, quantity, or degree; SCALE.

Gustave Caillebotte

Proportion Realistic proportion

accurately represents people of things in their actual proportions.

Distorted proportion effects mood and feelings by not being accurate in proportion.

Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci