Aesthetic Properties

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Aesthetic Properties

• Used in art evaluation or art criticism
• It is how we evaluate art work
• Sensory Properties
• Formal Properties
• Technical Properties
• Expressive Properties

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Aesthetic Properties
Formal
Sensory
Technical
Expressive
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Sensory Properties

• What we can describe
• Looking and/or touching
• Elements of Design

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Formal Properties

• How the artist arranges the Elements
• Principles of Design

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Composition

• When we consider how the artist uses Elements and
  Principles together is called composition.
• Elements Principles Composition

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Technical Properties

• Materials, techniques, and tools used
• Media
• Craftsmanship or skill

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Expressive Properties

• How we react to the artwork
• Emotions, responses, etc.
• Subject matter
• Symbols

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Aesthetic Properties
Formal
Sensory
Technical
Expressive
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Sensory Properties

• What we can describe
• Looking and/or touching
• Elements of Design
• Line
• Shape
• Value
• Texture
• Space
• Color

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Sensory Properties

• Line
• Most common element
• Very effective
• Define shapes
• Create value
• Express emotions
• Evoke reactions.

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Line

• Variety of lines in art
• Thick or thin
• Straight or curved
• Horizontal, vertical, or diagonal
• Organic, or geometric
• Continuous, or dashed
• Etc.

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Line

• Horizontal lines
• Suggest a feelings of
• Calm
• Rest
• Stability.
• Horizons
• Lying down in bed

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Line

• Vertical lines
• Suggest a feelings of
• Strength
• Power
• Height
• Skyscrapers
• Columns

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Line

• Diagonal lines
• Suggest a feelings of
• Movement
• Direction
• Depth
• Falling tree
• Linear Perspective

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Line

• Curved lines
• Suggest a feelings of
• Tired
• Calm
• Confusion
• Organic

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Line

• Angular lines
• Suggest a feelings of
• Speed
• Anger
• Violence
• Lightning

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Bellwork 8/5/08

• Describe how line is used in these pictures

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Shape

• When a line encloses an area
• Also a common element
• Squares
• Triangles
• Circles
• Two major categories
• Organic
• Geometric

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Shape

• Organic Shape
• Not easy to name
• Natural/Nature
• Rocks
• Plants
• Clouds
• Etc.

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Shape

• Geometric Shape
• Easy to name
• Square, circle, triangle, etc.
• Associated with man made
• Buildings
• Streets
• Windows
• Etc.

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Reminder

• Class Journal EVERYDAY
• Date your Bellwork and Reflective Writings
• Check PowerSchool
• Kleenex and paper

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Aesthetic Properties
Formal
Sensory
Technical
Expressive
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Last Time

• Line
• Shape

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Today

• Value
• Texture
• Space
• Color

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Value

• Lightness or darkness of a surface
• Lightest value white
• Darkest value black
• Color also has value
• If white is added, then the value is lightened
  Tinting
• If black is added, then the value is darkened
  Shading

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Value

• Grayscale

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Texture

• The way something feels (touch)
• Variety of textures
• Rough
• Smooth
• Bumpy
• Etc.

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Texture

• Actual texture
• You can actually feel
• Impasto
• Simulated texture
• Only gives the impression of texture

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Space

• The area around us
• Two major forms of space
• Two-dimensional
• Three-dimensional (real space)

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Space

• Two-dimensional artwork
• Illusion of space using special techniques
• Linear perspective
• Overlapping
• Scale
• Atmospheric perspective.

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Space

• Linear perspective
• Convergence of parallel lines toward a vanishing
  point

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Space

• Overlapping
• When one object is in front of another
• The object in front or on top seems to be closer
  than the other objects

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Space

• Scale
• When the size of an object seems to change as it
  goes further back or close up
• Foreground is larger than background

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Space

• Atmospheric perspective
• Objects farther in the distance appear
• more hazy
• have softer edges
• lighter values
• less detail
• The way we see in real life

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Bellwork 8/11/09

• List all 6 Elements of Design
• Give a detail, note, or example about each
  element.

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Todays Objective

• I will be able to evaluate
• two-dimensional pieces of art
• for the use of space.

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Color

• Most complex element of design
• A scientific phenomenon
• A wavelength of light reflected off an object and
  onto the eye

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Color

• Psychological effects of color
• Evoke a variety of moods, feelings, and
  sensations
• Artists plan color to evoke reactions
• A combination/grouping of colors is called a
  color scheme

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Color

• Three major categories
• Hue
• Value
• Intensity

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Hue

• The name of colors
• Primary hues
• Colors that can not be made by mixing two other
  colors together
• Ex red, blue, and yellow

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Hue

• Secondary Colors
• Mixing two primary colors
• Ex Orange, green, violet

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Hue

• Intermediate colors
• primary color with a secondary color
• Examples
• Blue-green
• Yellow-orange
• Red-violet
• Etc.

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Color

• Complimentary colors
• Colors opposite each other on a color wheel

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Color

• Warm or Cool Colors
• Warm colors
• Reds, yellows, and oranges
• Seem to come forward or pop out
• Cool colors
• Blues, greens, and some grays
• Seem to go back in a painting
• Highlights
• Shadows

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Color

• Value
• Lightness or darkness of a color
• By changing the value of a color the artist can
  create a variety of sensations from soothing to
  awakening

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Color

• Intensity
• Purity of a color
• Also called saturation
• Pure color is the most intense