What are the art elements and principles of design and composition? Otherwise, the ingredients of art are listed in this presentation.

1. The Language of
Art
Basic Terms
Formal Elements
Principles of Composition

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

4. Line

5. 2.4 Paul Klee. They’re Biting, 1920. Drawing and oil
on paper, 121/4" × 91/4". Tate Gallery, London.
Lines have direction:
→horizontal
→vertical
→diagonal
→curved
→meandering

6. Implied Line

7. Line Quality

8. Light and Dark=Value
• Achromatic
• Chromatic
• Shading
• Chiaroscuro

9. Chiaroscuro

12. Color
• Color combinations or
schemes
• Emphasis
• Evoke emotions

13. Subtractive color systems
• Pigments
• Primary colors
• Secondary colors
• Tertiary colors
• Analogous
• Complementary

14. Texture
• Tactile quality of a
surface
• Actual
• Visual

17. Shape
• Regular-geometric
• Irregular-organic or
biomorphic

18. Volume
• Any solid that occupies
a three-dimensional
volume
• mass

19. Space
• Perspective
• Atmospheric perspective
• Linear perspective

20. • parallel lines receding into the
distance converge at a vanishing
point on the horizon line

21. Atmospheric Perspective

22. Time & Motion

23. Chance/Improvisation
Spontaneity

24. Engaging the Senses

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?

29. Principles of Composition
Putting the Ingredients Together!

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”.

31. Balance
• Placing elements so that
visual weights seem
evenly distributed.

32. Symmetrical Balance

35. Asymmetrical Balance

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.

37. Radial Balance

38. Emphasis & Focal Point
• emphasis
• focal point

39. Scale & Proportion
• size
• Proportion. The
size relationship of
parts to the whole.

40. Repetition & Rhythm

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?

44. Structural Systems in Architecture
• Traditional Building Methods: load bearing
construction: all areas of the walls support the
structure above them

45. Colonnade

47. Wood Frame Construction
Cantilever

48. Arches, Vaulting

49. Arcade

50. Buttressing

51. Domes

52. Steel Frame Construction

53. Reinforced Concrete

54. Truss and Geodesic Construction

55. Suspension and Tensile Construction

56. Summary
• ART ELEMENTS: ingredients of art
• PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION:
arrangement of the elements
• ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES: building
methods