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| Line | A thin continuous mark, can be made by pencil, ink, brush, or incised that created contours, boundaries, forms and shapes defined by lines; painterly if lines are de-emphasized. Implied line, countour line, gesture line. |
| Light | A simple change in the direction of light dramatically changes the way we perceive as object. Value refers to the relative lightness and darkness of an object; direct light, implied light, chiaroscuro. |
| Shape | Two-dimensional: emphasis on the flat; figure/ground relationship; foreground, middle ground background difficult to distinguish; Geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, and squares or... Organic shape such as curving or rounded more informal. |
| Space | Two-dimensional space is figure ground relationship, foreground, middle ground background (With 3 dimensional objects such as sculpture we must move around the object to get the full experience) in 2D space it is defined. Overlap, atmospheric perspective, overlap and diminishing size, vertical placement overlap, vertical placement and diminishing size, linear perspective create feeling of three dimensional space. |
| Time and Motion | Although it is invisible it can be made perceptible in art, film, video, kinetic sculpture and painting. Implied and actual motion. |
| Texture | Tactile qualities of a surface actual texture that we can feel such as marble implied created to look like something other than paint on a flat surface. |
| Mass | Three dimensional art is called mass and is a major element in architecture and sculpture. --A closed form is a form that does not openly interact with the space around it. --An open form interacts with the surrounding space. |
| Color | Color exists only in light but light itself seems colorless to the human eye. All objects that appear to have color are merely reflectors of transmitters of the c olors that must be present in the light that illuminates them. True colors are red, yellow and blue. Mixing true colors together makes secondary colors. |
| Hue | Primary, secondary, intermediate colors. Analogous color scheme is colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Complementary color schemes emphasize the colors directly opposite on the color wheel. |
| Value | Refers to the relative lightness or darkness from white through grays to black pure; yellow is lightest of hues, violet is the darkest, red and green are middle value hues, black and white are important in changing core values, black added to a hue produces a shade of that hue for example when black is added to orange the result is a brown, when black is mixed with red the result is maroon. White added to a hue produces a tint. Lavender is a tint of violet, pink is a tint of red. |
| Intensity | Quality of brightness/saturation of color |
| Color Schemes | Monochromatic is one color scheme |
