Value Element of Art

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Value (Element of Art)

• is the lightness and darkness of a color.
• is used in black, white, and gray, but also in
  colored artwork.

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Value changes can create

• Depth of Space
• Illusion of Form
• Contrast
• Emphasis

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Light and Dark

• Shade
• The degree to which a color is mixed with black
  or is decreasingly illuminated gradation of
  darkness
• Tint
• A gradation of a color made by adding white to it
  to lighten and to lessen its saturation

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Value changes Depth

• The closer objects and figures are to the
  audience of an artwork, the darker they will need
  to be.

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Value changes Emphasis

• Most of this design is made with lower levels of
  contrast in value.
• Your eyes keep going back to the black next to
  the white.

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Value changes Form

• Using different shades or tints of any color can
  help create the illusion of a 3/D form.

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Sample of a value gray scale,using line to shade
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Compare these Picasso paintings regarding value.
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How did Mary Cassatt use value in these
paintings?