1. The Elements and Principals of
Design In Art
Marita Nurminen

3. BOLD LINE
CY TWOMBLY
CORONATION OF
SESOSTRIS
2000
CY TWOMBOLY
BACCHUS
2005 FINE

4. HENRI MATISSE
LE LANCE
1938
ELLSWORTH KELLY GEOMETRIC
RED GREEN BLUE Regular shapes
ORGANIC 1963 such as square
Irregular forms found in circle or pyramid
nature

5. Color
wheel
SATURATED
PRIMARY
COLOR
GREY SCALE
MARK ROTHKO MARK ROTHKO
THE TRAGEDY AND SECONDARY UNTITLED
THE ECSTASY COLOR 1969

6. Saturation scale
From pure to dull
Color Wheels
Grey Scale
Color wheel with tints and
shades

7. TACTILE VISUAL
MERET OPPENHEIM
EDWARD WESTON
BREAKFAST IN FUR
BRISKIE POINT
1936 1938

8. Atmospheric
Perspective
SPACE
Flattened Cubist Space
Cool Blues in Hazy Details in
the
Background Background
Warm Reds in Sharp
Pablo Picasso Foreground
Claude Lorrain details
3 Musicians
Flight From Egypt
1921
1666

9. Linear Perspective Tilted Perspective
PERSPCTAVE Ogata Korin
Plum Tree
1700’s
Jan Van Eyck
Ghent Alter Piece In tilted perceptive
1432 different objects are
In linear perspective all lines seen from different
converge at a central point angles in order to
creating the illusion of space show each object to
it’s fullest

10. POSITIVE SPACE FORM NEGITIVE SPACE
EDWARD TUFTE
UNTITLED
UMBERTO BOCCIONI 2007
UNIQUE FORMS OF
CONTINUITY
1921

11. Form and Volume
Creating 3 dimensional
volume in a
2 dimensional space
Michelangelo Caravaggio
The Calling of St Matthew
1599-1600
How light falls on a
sphere

12. PRINCIPALS
BRINGING THE ELEMENTS TOGETHER
UNITY: using rhythm, movement, repetition, texture, color or
other elements
BALANCE: asymmetrical, symmetrical
HIERARCHY OF SCALE: large, small, images or objects out of
normal proportions
SIMILARITY AND CONTRAST: using tones, colors, size or
textures to create excitement and drama in a composition
POSITIVE AND NEGITIVE SPACE: using blank space to balance a
composition

13. Rhythm and Texture and
Movement Continuity
Using repetitive gestures to
fill the canvas equally
UNITY Uses the same brush
stroke throughout the
canvas to unify the image
Jackson Pollock
#1
1947 Vincent Van Gogh
Self Portrait With A Straw
Hat
1887

14. BALENCE
Symmetrical
Asymmetrical
Gustave Caillebotte
Rue de Paris Temps de Pluie Leonardo da Vinci
1877 The Last Supper
1495-1498

15. BIG
HIERARCHY of SCALE Tiny
Fan Kuan
Travelers among
Mountains And Streams
Jenny Saville Can you find the people? 1100’s
Hyphen How does there size relate 10 inches x 17 inches
1999 to there importance
19 ½ ft. x 14 ½ ft.

16. SIMILARITY and CONTRAST
CONTRAST
Andy Warhol SIMILARITY
Robert Rauschenberg
Campbell's Soup Cans
Canyon
1962
1959
Uses the same Notice the contrast
between the flat
repetitive image painted surface and the
over and over three dimensional bird

17. POSITIVE And NEGITIVE SPACE
Half the
composition is
empty
Buddhist art
uses negative
space to help
people
understand
nirvana
NEGITIVE
In western art the
composition is
designed so the
Ma Yuan canvas is equally
On a Mountain Path in Spring filled with the most POSITIVE
1200’s important parts in
the center Jan Vermeer
The Allegory of Painting
1666

18. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Jacques-Louis David How many different elements
The Death of Socrates and principals can you find?
1787