Elements of Visual Arts PowerPoint Presentation
- 1. Visual Arts Hum 100: Introduction to Humanities
- 3. Visual Elements Line is the foundation of all drawing.
- 4. Psychological response to different lines • Curved lines suggest comfort and ease • Horizontal lines suggest distance and calm • Vertical lines suggest height and strength • Jagged lines suggest turmoil and anxiety
- 5. Expressive qualities can convey • Freehand lines can express the personal energy and mood of the artist • Mechanical lines can express a rigid control • Continuous lines can lead the eye in certain directions • Broken lines can express the ephemeral or the insubstantial • Thick lines can express strength • Thin lines can express delicacy
- 6. LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519) A Study for an Equestrian Monument, 1488 (metalpoint on blue paper)
- 7. HENRY MOORE (1898-1986) Sheep, 1972 (intaglio print on paper) Line as T one and Form
- 8. PETER DOIG (1959-) The Architects Home In The Ravine, 1991 (oil on canvas, 200x275cm.) Line as T exture
- 9. ROBERT DELAUNEY (1885-1941) Eiffel T ower, 1910 (oil on canvas) Line as Structure
- 10. KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (c.1760-1849) The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1823–29 (woodblock print from '36 Line as Movement
- 11. PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Weeping Woman, 1937 (oil on canvas) Line as Emotion
- 12. REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (1606-1669) T wo women teaching a child to walk, c.1635-37 (red chalk on paper) Line as Energy
- 13. ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976) Edgar Varèse and Unknown Man, 1929-30 (wire sculpture) Line as Form
- 14. PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Bull - plate 11, January 17 1946 (lithograph Line as Abstraction
- 15. Visual Elements • Shape can be natural or man-made, regular or irregular, fl at (2-dimensional) or solid (3- dimensional), representational or abstract, geometric or organic, transparent or opaque, positive or negative, decorative or symbolic, colored, patterned or textured.
- 16. The Behaviour of Shapes: Squares and Rectangles can portray strength and stability Circles and Ellipses can represent continuous movement T riangles can lead the eye in an upward movement Inverted T riangles can create a sense of imbalance and tension
- 17. T wo Dimensional Shapes M. C. ESCHER (1898-1972) Reptiles, 1943 (lithograph)
- 18. Three Dimensional Shapes ANTHONY CARO (1924-2013) Paul's T urn, 1971 (cor-ten steel) Three
- 19. Representational Shapes HARMEN STEENWYCK (1612-1656) 'Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life', 1640
- 20. Abstract Shapes PAUL CÉZANNE (1881-1973) Still Life with a Peach and T wo Green Pears, 1883-87 (oil on canvas)
- 21. Abstract Shapes PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944) Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43 (oil on canvas)
- 22. Positive and Negative Shapes STUART DAVIS (1892-1964) Colonial Cubism, 1954 (oil on canvas)
- 23. Geometric Shapes AL HELD (1928-2005) "S-E" 1979 (84"x84", acrylic on canvas)
- 25. Symbolic Shapes EADFRITH, BISHOP OF LINDISFARNE (died 721) 'Illuminated Ornamental Cross', 715-721, Lindisfarne Gospels
- 26. T ransparent, Re fl ective and Opaque Shapes RICHARD ESTES (b. 1932) Donohue's, 1967 (oil on masonite)