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Part II: Elements of Art

Line

Actual: Real

Implied: Suggested

Direction

Vertical: Potential Action

Horizontal: No Action

Diagonal / Curving: Action

Line Quality: Emotional Attributes

Flowing, Meandering, Lyrical, Calligraphic: Happy, playful

Jagged: Anxious, angry

Line and three-dimension

Gesture: rapid sketchy marks

Outline: Outer edge of form

Contour: Outer edge of form with internal detail

Cross Contour: Lines across a form to indicate volume

Hatching: Parallel lines used to create value

Cross-hatching: Parallel lines in superimposed layers to create value

Value

Relative degree of lightness and darkness; also described as tone

Chiaroscuro: Variations of light and shadow to create the illusion of depth, volume and form

Color

Hue: Pure State of Color

Shade: Black added to darken color; related to value

Tint: White added to lighten color; related to value

Intensity: brightness or dullness of color, also called chroma and saturation

Neutral color: Low intensity color

Local Color: Color we normally see in nature

Additive Color: Lighting such as Theatre, Television or computer screens

Subtractive Color: Pigments mixed with binders to create illusion of light

Primary: Red, Yellow or Blue

Secondary: Orange, Green or Violet

Tertiary: Mixing of one Primary and one Secondary

Analogous: Three colors adjacent on the color wheel

Complementary: Two colors opposite on the color wheel

Naturalistic Palette: Like we see in Nature

Arbitrary Palette: Unlike what we see in Nature

Warm Palette: Reds, yellows and oranges (Fire)

Cool Palette: Blues, greens and purples (Water)

Texture

Tactile: Actual variation of surface or Visual: Illusionary variation of surface

Simulated: Naturalistic Texture

Abstracted: Representation of actual texture that is simplified or distorted

Invented: Imagined texture that does not exist in nature

Pattern

Geometric: Regular elements spaced at regular intervals

Naturalistic: Irregular elements spaced at irregular intervals

Shape

Regular: Geometric

Irregular: Organic, biomorphic

Space (3D): actual depth

Mass: actual weight and volume;

Space (2D): Illusion of Depth

Perspective:

Linear: Converging lines

Atmospheric: Smaller and Less Distinct (fore, middle and back grounds)

Isometric: Parallel lines

Oblique: 45 degree angle parallel form with flat front and back

Multipoint: More than one point of view or varying types of perspective utilized

Part III: Principles of Organization

Balance

Symmetry: Balance from side to side

Asymmetry: Unbalanced from side to side

Approximate Symmetry: Almost balanced from side to side

Radial Symmetry: Balanced from every side and angle

Rhythm: Repetition

Regular: Smooth and even

Alternating: Different elements repeated side by side

Eccentric: Irregular and changing

Proportion:

Size of one part of the work relative to another part/s of the work

Scale:

Size relative to nature

Emphasis:

Focal Point of work

Accents: Lesser focal points

Unity:

Overall cohesion, repetition

Variety:

Element of Difference, change or uniqueness

Part IV: Themes in Art

Nature: The natural world, plants, animals, earth, sky, cosmos

The Body: How the human body looks, functions or performs; sexuality, the state or quality of being human; similarities and differences found within a group of persons; what is universal, what is unique to the human experience

Daily Life: Everyday routines for survival; individually or as a group; tools or instruments, food and shelter

Politics and Protest: Position and rank within a social structure; powerful versus powerless; reactions to or against these structures

Spirituality: Religions, deities, sacred spaces, spiritual practices and rituals

History and Storytelling: Memory and Remembrance; Historical tales and other stories related to a person or group of persons

Visual Experience: Visual sensation for interest, entertainment and/or pleasure; the fantastic, supernatural or imagined