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Vincent van Gogh
The “Elements of Art” are like the “building blocks” from which a piece of art is made; the “alphabet” of the visual world:
Line – (wire) a point moving through space, lines can be straight, curvy, zig-zag
Shape – (heart-shaped cookie cutter) an area enclosed by a line or an edge, 2-dimensional, can be geometric or organic
Form – (apple) 3-dimensional, having volume and mass
Color – (paint chip, color sample) the hue of an object (red, blue, yellow, etc.)
Value – (flashlight) the lightness or darkness of a color – not how much something costs!
Texture – (sandpaper) the surface quality, how something feels or how it looks like it would feel (visual texture)
Space – (tape measure) the illusion of distance or depth created with shading and/or perspective, or the actual space that something occupies
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