2. Form
• Media & technique
• Art elements
• Principles of organization
• Unity
3. THE FORMAL ELEMENTSTHE FORMAL ELEMENTS
→line
→light and value
→color
→texture and pattern
→shape and volume
→space
→time and motion
Some works also contain :
→chance
→improvisation
→spontaneity
→engaging senses
other than sight
25. Practice
• See if you can identify the following in the next
slides:
1. Abstract, representational, or non-objective?
2. How many art elements can you identify in the
art?
3. what is the most dominant art element in the art
work?
30. Composition
• the placement or arrangement of visual
elements or ingredients in a work of art.
• The result of how you put together all the
“ingredients”.
36. Can you see how this
image is asymmetrically
balanced?
•Figure to the left of the composition
•The figure and the white of the dress
dominate the canvas, yet the bright
colors of the vases on the right and the
flowers coming in on lower right help
to balance the picture.
•The woman and the placement of her
arms are also helping to balance the
painting.
•Also her reflection is part of that
visual balance.
41. Unity & Variety
• Variety:differences
by contrasting,
changing elements
in a composition to
add interest.
• Unity: bringing the
elements of art into
a sense of oneness.
42. Practice
1. Identify the main principles of design that are
most dominant in the following slides of art.
2. And what art elements do they use?
43.
44. Structural Systems in Architecture
• Traditional Building Methods: load bearing
construction: all areas of the walls support the
structure above them