The document discusses the formal elements and principles of art. It identifies the key elements as color, line, texture, tone, shape/form. It then explains each element in more detail providing examples of how different artists have used each element. It also discusses the principles of design including contrast, repetition, movement, rhythm, direction, space, balance, proportion, and emphasis, explaining how artists use these principles to combine the elements.

1. Formal Elements Elements of Art Principles of Art

2. What makes up an art work? The Elements of art

7. Primary colours Lichtenstein

8. Secondary colours

9. Complementary colours Gauguin

10. Monochromatic colour scheme Escher

11. Colour Schemes

12. Colour schemes

13. Complementary colours scheme

15. Van Gogh

17. Rothko

19. Line Clement Meadmore

20. Line can create volume Escher

21. Lines can create movement they can move through an art work Escher

22. Lines can create movement Brett Whiteley

23. Brett Whiteley

24. Brett Whiteley

26. Lines create pattern and shape John Olsen

28. Rick Amor

30. Tone Rembrandt Hatching and cross-hatching

34. Texture Van Gogh

36. Simulated texture imitates real texture Max Ernst

37. Oldenburg real texture, the feel of a surface

39. Shape

45. Degas Space

49. Contrast Picasso “Girl Mirror”