Principles & Elements Elements Color- need light. Hue are the primary colors. White, black or red, blue and yellow. Value is about how dark or how light the color is. Intensity is like saturation. Different shades of blue with different intensities show different mood. The border of the picture to the right has lot of color. The middle’s value is light and its darker on the borders. It looks like its coming out, The black holes and white tennis racket like pattern show Hue colors. Also the contrast of only black and white shows a deep thought. Looking at the color wheel for this picture. Its only black and white. Black is made with mixing all three primary colours. Looking at Hue, value and intensity. My example is not very intense because the color saturation is minimum. Its not very colorful at all, but the black and white is the colors used. It is light and dark at certain points, which is the Hue and the value. Line- A line is simply a sharp object on a surface. light is reflected more on a smooth surface than a black surface.smooth- all light reflected. Bolder looks closer. Paler is further. In the picture to the left. The lines are bold and have sharp edges. The sharp and bold writing shows boldness and daring attributes of graffiti. The lines in graffiti is very different to other forms of art. To conclude, a line is a basic element of art, referring to a line that goes on. Made on a surface, by a moving point. The sharp lines in the picture Shape/ Form- A shape is like a 2 dimensional, enclosed area. Form is more a 3D drawing. everything. Everything in the world comes in a shape. Apple is like a circle, computer is like a rectangle, and so on. The green picture to the right shows a circular shape. the form is somet... ... middle of paper ... ... important because an imbalance can make the picture look very strange. If it is balanced well, it makes a unified complete piece as a whole. Its used to have all the elements together. The tree picture is balanced well harmony wise. The colours are right. (Grass is not black). The tree’s leaves are read and it shows leaves falling off. Its showing the autumn season very well. Variety- Variety in art is exactly what the word says. An art piece with different shape, form, color and all the other elements in it. For example, A donut box is rectangular with different coloured donuts with different shapes inside. The picture to the left shows so much variety. Different shapes are used, different texture. Some lines are sharp, some are rough. The drawing that looks like a chicken in the middle is the focus point. Theres different shapes and it looks very distinct.
Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South and Madonna Enthroned are very similar images that were produced by very different cultures. Both images were produced during the 13th Century. The image of Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South was produced in Tibet during an interesting period of the country’s religious history. The branch of Tibetan Buddhism is led by a religious and sometimes political leader called the Dalai Lama. It was during the 13th Century during the reign of Kublai Khan, around the time of the production of this painting, that Tibet experienced the first incarnation of the Dalai Lama. One has to wonder if this painting is somehow related to that occurrence. According to one source, the reincarnation system for the Living Buddhas is the main point distinguishing Tibetan Buddhism from other forms of Buddhism.
are depicted with the same degree of variation. To understand such a diverse set of paintings –
Crooked Beak of Heaven Mask is a big bird-figure mask from late nineteenth century made by Kwakwaka’wakw tribe. Black is a broad color over the entire mask. Red and white are used partially around its eyes, mouth, nose, and beak. Its beak and mouth are made to be opened, and this leads us to the important fact in both formal analysis and historical or cultural understanding: Transformation theme. Keeping that in mind, I would like to state formal analysis that I concluded from the artwork itself without connecting to cultural background. Then I would go further analysis relating artistic features to social, historical, and cultural background and figure out what this art meant to those people.
Though most works of art have some underlying, deeper meaning attached to them, our first impression of their significance comes through our initial visual interpretation. When we first view a painting or a statue or other piece of art, we notice first the visual details – its size, its medium, its color, and its condition, for example – before we begin to ponder its greater significance. Indeed, these visual clues are just as important as any other interpretation or meaning of a work, for they allow us to understand just what that deeper meaning is. The expression on a statue’s face tells us the emotion and message that the artist is trying to convey. Its color, too, can provide clues: darker or lighter colors can play a role in how we judge a piece of art. The type of lines used in a piece can send different messages. A sculpture, for example, may have been carved with hard, rough lines or it may have been carved with smoother, more flowing lines that portray a kind of gentleness.
Lines are one of the fundamentals of all drawings. The lines in this drawing represent shape, form, structure, growth, depth, distance, movement and a range of emotions. In “Three Mile Island” Jacquette uses a mixture of horizontal lines to suggest distance and calm, through his use of thick and thin lines he shows delicacy and strength.
...o identify any geometric shapes someone would recognize. We see trees, people, and clouds. As a matter of fact, not even the staff the man in the focal point is holding is geometrical in shape, but crooked, as if it had been used for years. It is amazing how both geometric and organic shapes can create something that looks almost as authentic as a picture.
...ion. The painter put Washington to appear as the only element in the painting that does not show movement. Washington stands upright and unwavering, focusing his thoughts on the battle ahead or future. His determinations stimulate his soldiers as they struggle against great odds to cross the icy river at dawn. Proportionally, usually refers to the way different elements in a painting relating to each other in terms of size. The painter put George Washington to be bigger than other sailors to justify proportion. We are able to understand that art painting is just like any other art work. He uses color to distance object and how the form appears to give three dimensions. To my conclusion the element of art work in painting are justified to make the painting look real and lively with the use of perspective, texture, color, form, and motion, and proportions.
Overall the artist does make a unified scene in this composition. Birch used these principals of design to make his composition more effective like balance, movement, repetition and unity. The composition seems balanced because most of the subjects in the painting are all equally distributed and proportioned.
-Scott McCloud examines lines and the way they are formed. Then he translates them into feelings and actions. The type of line used to draw a character, especially their face, also holds meaning in V.
Graffiti is a lettering, a painting, and marks anywhere on any property (Wikepedia). Simply forms of graffiti are simply decoration some are symbols on walls or on the ground. It is a way of communicating and expressing once feeling to the world. Often it is seen as unwanted, because it damages property and is usually considered insightful. There are two types of graffiti, one is popular graffiti. It is the kind of graffiti that we see in bathroom, billboards, school desk, sidewalks, or anywhere. Where as the community based graffiti is usually based on the hip hop culture, to mark a territory for the Gang in that area.
Each drawing. Each painting. Each sculpture. It can give you a glimpse of what is going on in the artist’s head. Take the painting “El Autobus” by Frida Kahlo as an example. It has been said that the painting is in reference of the accident Frida Kahlo had where she got impaled by a metal handrail. The painting is of a bench with people sitting on it just before boarding the bus. This kind of artwork, where the artist puts a little bit of him/her self in it is something I strive for. I want to make art that reflects me, or that means something to me. I don’t want to make something just because, I want it to be where the viewer could possibly see the hard work, the passion, the emotion behind it. Things that most times get
AA theory by Clive Bell suggests the pinpoints the exact characteristic which makes a work true art. According to Bell, an artwork must produce “aesthetic emotion” (365). This aesthetic emotion is drawn from the form and formality of an artwork rather than whether or not it is aesthetically pleasing or how well it imitates what it is trying to depict. The relation of objects to each other, the colors used, and the qualities of the lines are seemingly more important than what emotion or idea the artwork is trying to provoke. Regardless of whether or not the artwork is a true imitation of certain emotions, ideals, or images, it cannot be true art unless it conjures this aesthetic emotion related to formality (367).
Hue is the common name for the colours in the spectrum which are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. A pigment is a colouring ag...
Today most art education programs are made up of four components. One of these components is art aesthetics. Aesthetics is the study of the nature of a piece of artwork. It analyzes the work by asking specific questions regarding the artist and the piece. The viewer becomes the judge in a sense. It tries to discover what the artwork might be representing. They could also ask what type of emotion the artist was trying to convey in their work. The viewer also takes part in analyzing the physical aspects and characteristics of the work. It focuses on the use of color, sequence and synchrony of an artwork. It notes the artist’s craftsmanship, artistic ability and proficiency in technique (Hoffman 1999).
Cubism takes the opposite route for the same effect. Solid lines are drawn, but the painting itself is usually more abstract (as with Picasso). At times it can be difficult to discern what some paintings are supposed to represent. Bright, vivid colors infuse the pieces with more passion. The contrast between those not well defined objects and the punch of emotion gives cubism its personality and vitality.