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The Elements Of Art are our building blocks of art creation. As students we can analyze, organize, and manipulate by artists (US!). They are the VISUAL LANGUAGE of art. Each of the Elements is important. When looking at a work of art, see if you can identify which Elements of Art the artist used to express a message or to create a mood.
How many types of lines can you make?
How important are lines to our environment?
As an artist you need to recognize the power of the "Line". Let's take a more detailed look at "Line" and its impact on our world and the world of art.
The Element of "Color" has the most noticed effect on a work of art. Think about it. How would the world look if everything was in black, white and gray shades?
The effects "Color" has a powerful effect on your art work and on the impressions of your viewers. Let's
see what "Color" is and just how it is used in your art.
An element of art which refers to the surface quality or how the object feels, its roughness, softness, or smoothness so on. Textures may be actual tactile texture or simulated visual texture. Actual textures can be felt with the fingers. Visual textures are suggested by the way the artist has created certain areas of a picture.
Shapes are everywhere. More common ones geometric shapes are given names such as circle or square. You have learned these in math class. Organic shape allows any amount of shape possibilities and combinations. Lets see what role shape plays in works of art.
Forms are often called the three-dimensional shapes. Unlike flat, two-dimensional areas, like a flat drawn circle r square. Forms are represented as three-dimensional. The great illustrators and sculptors of the world of art use the Element Form even more than color. Think about it most stone sculptures are in the gray scale. Let's see how they did it!
Often we do not consider Space, not outer space with the stars and moon, when we create a work of art. It often just seems to happen. The foreground, middle ground and back ground. Let's take a look at how Space effects a work of art and just how artists use Space to create interest in their works.
Value is the lightness or darkness of a color. Think about when you are in the paint department looking fr a colr to paint your room. How many different blue's are on one color strip.
Art critique
The Art Critiquing Process is the way of organizing the facts and your thoughts about a particular work of art. The Art Critiquing Process is four steps. The steps are Description, Analysis, Interpretation and Judgment. Each step must be covered in order! Don't skip a step. This order helps you to organize your thoughts and to make intelligent and educated statements about a work of art. Go over the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design, this is your artist vocabulary and knowledge which is necessary to critique art intelligently.
Please remember that not all your classmates are going to agree with everything you say. Each person brings into the Art Critiquing Process their own prior knowledge and experiences that are unique to them.
Often the first thing you do when you look at a work of art is to say "It's good", "I don't like it", "It's pretty" or "It is ugly". Don't jump to your opinions first. However, in order to make intelligent statements and educated guesses, we must follow the Art Critiquing Process and begin with the first step Description. Description simply means to describe the picture. Tell what you see. Talk about the subject, the medium and any information you have gotten from reading the artist statement or text from the book. Also look at the credit line, which is that little line typed in books below the picture. This is NOT the step to add your opinions. Be objective think like a detective who is looking at the scene of a crime.
The first step of the art Critiquing Process is Description. This is the time to make observations about what you see. It is very important to remember that you must be objective. Consider yourself the detective only state the FACTS! First step is to list what you see remember only the facts. Pull from the Element and Principles or art for your vocabulary. Read any text around the painting including the credit line since sometimes that may be all you have.
Jasper Johns (American) b.1930, Numbers 1939, Oil on wood
Description are these statements made Fact or False fill out the form and submit.
1- This is a painting by Jasper Johns.
2- It was painted in 1935.
3- The artist uses different tints of blue only.
4- The painting shows overlapping numbers.
5- The painting is called Numbers.
6- The numbers take up only a small part of the canvas.
Can you think of any other informational statements you could make about this painting?
Is this work abstract? Is it Realistic?
Frida Kahlo (Mexican) 1907-1954-, Self-Portrait With Monkey, Oil on canvas
Description:
1-This is a portrait of A monkey.
2- There are three animals included in the painting: a monkey, a black cat and a black bird.
3- Large foliage fills the background.
4- The artist put in dragonflies and butterflies as well.
5- Frida is wearing a colorful dress and a necklace with a bird pendant.
6- Frida is looking straight ahead.
7 -She is smiling in this painting.
8-It looks like empty vines are wrapped around her neck and shoulders also.
What else could be added here in the Description section of the Art Critiquing Process? Remember, this important step slows down the process and forces the viewer to really study a work of art.
Claude Monet, (French) 1840-1926, Impression:Sunrise, 1872
Sometimes when you are describing a work of art, you know for certain that the work has a special classification.
This painting is a landscape. Information such as that can be included in the description. Such as self-portrait of the artist or is it just a portrait. If you are familiar with the artist Monet and different art styles, you may have already recognized this painting as done in an Impressionistic style.
How would you describe the colors and the brushstrokes. Can you make out such details as the boat, the water and
a sun?
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