Elements of Art
An element of art defined by a point moving in space. It may be two or three-dimensional, descriptive, rhythmic, implied, or abstract.
Line
is the repeating of an object or symbol all over the work of art.
Pattern
An element of art that is two-dimensional, flat, or limited to height and width.
Shape
a naturally occurring fine-grain soil containing various minerals that gains plasticity when wet.
Clay
All art consists largely of elements that can be called abstract—elements of form, color, line, tone, and texture.
Abstract art
•An element of art that is known to overlap, show depth in a work of are and has positive and negative values.
Space
the path the viewer’s eye takes through the work of art, often to focal areas.
Movement
Paper, canvas, and wooden boards are an example of this that are usually covered in a medium.
Support
This drawing medium used by humans dates between 32,000 and 28,000 year old in cave Paintings.
Charcoal
style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane.
Cubism
When light hits an object and reflects into your eye
Color
is the feeling of unity created when all parts (sizes, amounts, or number) relate well with each other.
Proportions
elements are similar on both sides of the design
Symmetrical
first used in Europe in the 12th century. By using a metal wire to draw with.
this is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.
Color Fields
Impasto is a painting technique in which the paint is built up on the surface.
Texture
is created when one or more elements of design are used repeatedly to create a feeling of organized movement.
Rhythm
Principle of design aspect that the focus of the art is different than the rest of the image.
Separation
Water based pigments are added to wet plaster and traces back to 2000 BC in Minoan Culture of Crete.
Fresco
seen as rebellious and idiosyncratic, encompassing various artistic styles, and was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence.
Abstract Expressionism
Chiaroscuro is an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something,
Value
is the feeling of harmony between all parts of the work of art, which creates a sense of completeness.
Unity
The movement’s artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected, the uncanny and the disregarded and the unconventional.
Surrealism
This medium derived from not dissolved dyes but from finely ground up solid matter, similar to paint.
Action Paintings is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas and is sometimes called this.
Gestural Abstraction