Chapter 2
Part 1a / Formal Analysis
Chapter 2
Formal Elements of Art
• Line
• Light and Value
• Color
• Texture and Pattern
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and volume
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• Time
Timeand
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Motion
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Line
The measure of a line is it’s length and it’s width that can be conceptualized as a moving dot.
- Fichner
Line
Sumi Painting
Chinese Calligraphy and Painting
Art Nouveau
Line
The Climax
From the book, Salomé by Oscar Wilde
The Peacock Skirt
From the book, Salomé by Oscar Wilde
1893
Aubrey
Beardsley
1893
Line
Sol
Lewitt
Lines From Four Corners
To Points On A Grid
White and black crayon 1976
Cy
Twombly
Untitled
Ink on paper
1937
Implied Line
Henri de
Toulouse-Latrec
Yvette Gilbert
Oil on paper
1892
Outline
Paul
Klee
They’re Biting
Drawing and Oil on pape
1920
Contour Line
Egon
Schiele
Seated Woman
Charcoal and casein on paper 1917
Horizontal Line
Henri
Rousseau
The Sleeping Gypsy
Diagonal Line
Jacob
Lawrence
Harriet Tubman Series, No. 4, 1939-40
Diagonal Line (& gesture lines)
The Outbreak
Etching Print 1903
Kathe
Kollwitz 1867 - 1945
Self-Portrait
Charcoal
1924
Hatching (& repetition of line) to create volume and depth
Albrecht Durer
Artist drawing a model in foreshortening through a frame using a grd system
Woodcut Print c.1500
15th Century Northern Art
* German Art
Line
Young Hare
Watercolor with opaque white
1502
The Albertina Museum, Vienna
Night, Death, and the Devil
Engraving
1513
Los Angeles Museum of Art
Albrecht Durer
Hatching (& repetition of line) to create volume and depth
Self-Portrait
Etching Print c.1625
Egon
Schiele
Seated Woman
Charcoal and casein on paper 1917
Landscape
Etching Print c.1640
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Hatching (& repetition of line) to create volume and depth
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Three crosses
Etching Print c.1640
Line in 3-Dimensions
Aboriginal Memorial
Royal Linguist’s Staff
Asante, Ghana
Line in 3 dimensions
Aboriginal Memorial
By Ramingining
A group of 43 artists headed by Paddy Dhatangu and others
200 pieces of heights : 16” to 128”
Light and Value
Light is at the very core of the visual arts. The value of a color of a surface is its lightness or darkness.
Light and Value
Henri
Rousseau
The Sleeping Gypsy
Chiaroscuro
Rosso
Fiorentino
Recumbent Female Nude Figure Asleep
Conte crayon
c.1535
Chiaroscuro
Georges
Seurat
Mother sewing
Charcoal
Jan
Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Oil on canvas
c.1660
1880
Light and Value
Louise
Nevelson
White Vertical Water
Painted wood
Sky Cathedral
Painted wood
1969
1972
Light
Bruce
Nauman
Human/Need/Desire
Neon
1983
Bruce
Nauman
The True Artist
Neon
c.1984
Bruce
Nauman
Mean Clowns Welcome
Neon
c. 1988
Light
Dan
Flavin
Untitled (in honor of Harold Joachim)
Neon
c 1979
Color
It is only after years of preparation that the artist should touch color ----- not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Henri Matisse
Color
Color
Subtractive Color System (color scheme for pigments, paints, etc.)
Ended 11am
Color
Color
Wayne
Thiebaud
Four Cakes
Lithograph 1999
Color
Girl Reading (La Lecture)
Oil on canvas (o/c)
1905-06
The Piano Lesson
Henri
Matisse
Oil on canvas
1916
Jasper Johns
See other
To beginning Colors
POGD
Color
Additive Color System
Color
Additive Color System
RGB for lightwaves, i.e. digital cameras, TV, computer screens, the eye, scanners, etc.
Romanticism
England
Example of local color
Mr. And Mrs. Andrews
Oil on canvas
John
1750
Constable
(1776 - 1837)
The Hay Wain
Oil on canvas
1821
Impressionism
Example of
Claude
Monet
Rouen Cathedral
Oil on canvas
1894
optical color
Texture and Pattern
The word texture derives from the Latin word for ‘weaving.’ Pattern is repetition in organized form.
- Fichner
Pattern
Blanket
Mountain goat wool and cedar bark
Tlingit
Pattern
Wayne
Thiebaud
Pie Counter
Oil on canvas 1963
Pattern
The Great Mosque (Islamic)
Cordoba, Spain
786
Pattern and Texture
Royal Mosque
Isfahan, Iran
Deesis Mosaic (detail)
Mosaic tile
1185 - 1204
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
1612-1637
Texture (tactile,actual)
Lion Capital
Polished sandstone
India
250 BCE
Texture (tactile,actual)
Louise
Bourgeois
Blind Man’s Bluff
Marble
1984
Texture (tactile,actual)
Meret
Oppenheim
Object
Fur
1936
Texture (implied or the illusion of texture)
Jan
Bruegel
Little Bouquet in a Clay Jar
Oil on wood panel
c.1600
Texture (tactile,actual)
Pinkham
Ryder
Night Seascape
Oil
1906
Texture (tactile,actual)
Dreams
by
Kurosawa
Vincent
Van Gogh
Crows in the Wheat Field
Oil on canvas
1890
Shape and Volume
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.
- Paul Cézanne
Shape
Irregular - Organic / Biomorphic
Louise
Bourgeois
Cumul
Marble
c 1984
Shape
Irregular - Organic / Biomorphic
Martin
Puryear
That Profile
Stainless steel
1997 - 99
Shape
Regula / Linear shapes- Geometric
Cubi XVIII
Polished Stainless Steel
1964
Cubi XXVI
Polished Stainless Steel
1965
David
Smith
Every time I make a sculpture it breeds ten more, and then time is
too short to make them all. - David Smith
Space
I find it important to draw attnetion to thinking and doing as well as to what happens in between, to
lightness and heaviness, to the energy that oscillates between . . .
- Magdalena Jetelová
Space (planar 2-Dimensions)
Jacob
Lawrence
No. 36: During the Truce Touissant is Deceived ………
Tempera on paper
c 1937
Space (planar but Illusion of 3-Dimensons)
Frida
Kahlo
Self-Portrait with Monkey
Oil on masonite
1938
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