Artistic Decisions

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Artistic Decisions

• Creating a formal analysis
• using the
• Elements of Art,
• Principles of Arrangement,
• Medium(s),
• and
• Technique(s)
• to understand the choices an artist makes in the
  creative process.

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Elements of Art

• LINE SHAPE VALUE TEXTURE
  COLOR

FORM
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Line

• Path of a point moving in space.
• Direction
• horizontal, vertical, diagonal, spiral, zigzag,
  chaotic, curved.
• Weight
• thick, thin, variable , calligraphic, wiry
• Organization
• implied, staccato, cross-hatch, broken, radial,
  chaotic, flowing

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Contour Line

• A continuous line outlines/defines an objects
  outer shape.
• Descriptive
• Based on observation

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Shape

• An enclosed area.
• organic or
  geometric
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• positive and Negative space created by
  alternating foreground and background shapes.

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Value

• Degree of lightness or darkness.

Paul Klee
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Form

• Three dimensions
• Projection of a shape
• Occupies actual space

Harp Player, Cyclades c.2600 BCE
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FormMass

• The bulk, density
• and weight of a form.

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Form Volume

• Space that is contained with in a form.

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Texture

• Quality of a surface (rough/shiny)
• Appeals to our sense of TOUCH.

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Color

• Appears when an object reflects part of the color
  spectrum, while absorbing all the rest.

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Color Wheel

• Shows relationships between the colors.
• Primary
• Secondary
• Intermediate
• Analogous
• Complementary

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Colors

• Primary colors
• Red, Yellow and Blue
• Secondary colors
• Orange, green purple

• Complementary colors
• Colors opposite each other on the color wheel.

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Three properties of color

• Hue
• Value
• Intensity

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Hue

• Name of a color
• Color families are noted by hues
• The hue of red includes maroon and pink.

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Value

• Color Value describes
• The lightness and darkness of a color
• And

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(Color)Value

• The relationship between dark and light colors.
• For example, yellow is light while purple is
  dark.

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Intensity/saturation

• Purity of color its brightness or dullness.
• Colors lose intensity when they
• are mixed with neutral and complementary colors.

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Journal Write

• Write a paragraph explaining how the artist or
  artists used the elements of art to describe this
  rock painting at Chauvet.

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Composition

• How an artist organizes (composes) the subject(s).

Barbara Kruger
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Principles of Arrangement

• Composing is the same as arranging.
• The following principles are used to by the
  artist to communicate a message

• Balance
• Rhythm
• Repetition
• Proportion
• Contrast
• Unity

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Balance
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Balance
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Rhythm repeating art elements to create pattern
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Proportion relationship between sizes
Canon of proportions Albrecht Durer
Hierarchy of Scale Palette of Narmer
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Contrastdegree of difference
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Unityrelationship between the subject and the
elements in a work of art.
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How has the photographer achieved unity in this
photo?
The potter in the oven By Onder Turaci
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Medium

• What an artist uses to make art (pens, brushes,
  marble, gold, etc.)

Title A Show of Hands Medium photography
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Medium
Medium Collage and mixed media (bottle caps,
wood frame,paper)
Medium Oil paint on wood panel
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Collage
What mediums do you see in this display?
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Technique

• The processes that artists employ (applying paint
  with a brush, how they do something..)

Painting techniques might include words like
glazing, impasto, outlining, grisaille. These
words explain how the artist is applying paint to
a substrate.
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Technique
Repousse the technique of impressing and
depressing designs into metal sheeting. One of
the first times we see this is in the Ancient
Near East in the land of Akkad.
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1.Discuss which principles are used inthis
composition?
Journal Write

• Balance
• Rhythm
• Repetition
• Proportion
• Contrast
• Unity
• 2. Guess what medium and techniques were used.

Cave at Chauvet