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COOKING UP SOME ART

The Visual Arts Elements

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Artists, like cooks, need ingredients to make art. These ingredients are

called the Visual Arts Elements.They are:

SPACE

LINE

FORM

COLOR

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SHAPE

TEXTURE

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LINE is the path of a point moving through space. It has direction.

Think of a knife cutting vegetables.Can you name the 5 directions?

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LINE has 2 properties that compare to the ingredients that go into a recipe.Quality, or unique

characteristics- each line, like each food, is unique

Variation, the large/small, thick/thin andlight/dark differences in similar items

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SHAPE is the area made when a line closes on itself. It has 2 dimensions, height and width.

Shape is important in food, too. It helps us identify, and make decisions about, what we eat.

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is a 3-dimensional shape.

Think of some volumes and forms food comes in. Name the forms of some common cooking pots and pans.

Name the threedimensions.

Height, width, and depth

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Both shapes and forms have two classes:Geometric Organic

Precise, mathematical Natural, irregularClassify the following artworks:

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Texture

is how things feel or look as if they would feel if touched. Think of it as the way food feels on your tongue.

Real texture is what you can actually feel.

Simulated or virtual texture is a picture that reminds us of what something feels like. What would these sculptures feel like?

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Textures on the computer…

…are virtual…

Can you describe what these would feel like?

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comes from light andis an electromagnetic wave.

We see only part of the spectrum (range of colors) which occurs naturally as a rainbow.

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Color affects us Color affects us powerfully.powerfully.

• Foods must be the color we expect…Foods must be the color we expect…– What happens if they are not?What happens if they are not?

• What happens if we eat in the dark?What happens if we eat in the dark?– Would you trust your other senses?Would you trust your other senses?– What are they?What are they?

• Color describes moods and emotions.Color describes moods and emotions.– Name a few for each color…Name a few for each color…

• We are affected by room colors, the We are affected by room colors, the colors of our clothes, lighting, etc.colors of our clothes, lighting, etc.

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Attributes of colorAttributes of color

• Hue is the pure color’s name.– Name some: (think rainbow)

• Intensity is a color’s brightness or dullness.

• Value is its lightness or darkness, made by adding white, gray, or black.

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VALUE can be shown as the Grayscale, or series of tones having varying proportions of white and black, to give a full

range of grays.

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Tints, Tones, and Shades• TINTS= mixing white with a color.• SHADES= mixing black with a color.

•TONES= mixing gray with a color.

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Starry Night, oil on canvas, Vincent Van Gogh 1889

What is the mood of this painting? How do the colorshelp create the mood?

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SpacSpacee is the distance or area around

and within things. It is like the final form of the food being prepared.

This painting by Wayne Thiebaud, Sugar Cones, is in 2-dimensional space. Name the dimensions.

What space does an actual ice cream conefill? Can you name the 3rd dimension?

Height, width

Depth

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Describe the space in this sculpture.

What element has the artist used with space?Line- the poles and wires

3-D, the air and what you see through the sculpture

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Overlapping Relative size Detail and focusPlacement in space Shading

Perspective

Georges Seurat, The Bathing Place, 1884

How do artists create the illusion of space on a flat surface?

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Fill in the blank with Closer or Farther:• Overlapping: What’s in front is _______.• Relative size: What’s smaller is _________.• Detail and focus: What’s clearest is _____.• Placement in space: What’s at top is ______.• Shading: What’s highlighted is _______.• Perspective: We see things in the distance

a certain way. Artists use measurements to recreate this, like taking a photo does.

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Overlapping Relative size Detail and focus

Placement in space Shading Perspective

Match the technique to the art.

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Just for fun-see how many errors inperspective you can find inWm. Hogarth’s1754 woodcut,PerspectivalAbsurdities.

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Your Turn!

Use the internet or make your own drawings to illustrate

your flashcards.