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The building blocks of art.
The elements of art are those components that one combines with principles of design to construct art.

A mark with length and direction.
A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point
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Ansel Adams Gustave Caillebotte

Pablo Picasso

Henri Matisse
C O L O R
Alexander Calder

C O L O R
Consists of:
Hue -another word for color
Intensity - the brightness or dullness of a shade or color
Value - lightness or darkness of a shade or color

V A L U E
MC Escher
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso
V A L U E:
LINES… and
VALUES…

SHAPE
Joan Miro
An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; Shapes are limited to two dimensions: length and width.

Geometric shapes - circles, rectangles, squares, triangles and so on - have the clear edges one achieves when using tools to create them.
William Conger

Organic shapes have natural, less well-defined edges, for example an amoeba, a leaf, or a cloud.

LINES…VALUES…and SHAPES

Sculpture is an example of “real” form
FORM
Jean Arp
This painting is an example of “implied” form
Lucien Freud

FORM is a 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional.
For example, this circle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape,
But the sphere, which is 3-dimensional, is a form. Form can
Be real or implied.

S P A C E
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things. space in a composition
Claude Monet
The development of foreground, middleground, and backgroundis one way to create DEPTH.

Robert Mapplethorpe
Positive space is the area of a composition that is filled with something- the objects. Negative space is the area which surrounds the objects in a composition or the empty areas.

Overlapping is a technique that can be used to develop space in a composition.

The surface quality of an object, smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be actual or implied.

Cecil
Buller