chapter 2 the language of art & architecture

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PRINCIPLES OF ART

SPRING 2012

Chapter 2The Language of Art &

Architecture

Color All of the colors are derived from the three primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) and black and white. Color has three properties: hue, value, and intensity.

Ojibwe beadwork

Hue

Name and properties of a color

Value

Relative Light and Darkness

Local Value(Rendering)

Created Value(Modeling)

Color Systems

Additive

red + green + blue = white

Subtractive

magenta + yellow + cyan = black

Learn the Color Wheel

Primary Color

Secondary Colors

Tertiary Colors

Complementary ContrastsOpposite colors are complementary

Analogous ColorsAre beside each other on the color wheel

Tints & ShadesVisualize the color wheel created in different

ways

Do colors have personality ?

Warm & Cool

PRINCIPLES OF ART

Composition - the arrangement of formal elements in a work of art.

Pattern/RepetitionBalanceRhythm/MovementProportion & ScaleEmphasisUnity/Harmony Variety/Contrast

Pattern & RepetitionPattern refers to the repetition or reoccurrence of a design

element, exact or varied, which establishes a visual beat.

Blanket Tlingit people, Chilkat style. Mountain goat wool and cedar bark, 31" × 71", excluding fringe.

Pattern may function as decoration.Pattern helps organize ideas into visual diagrams that make relationships clear.

Functions

Rhythm & MovementRhythm or Movement refers to the suggestion of motion through the use of various elements

Time and Motion, particularly in photography, film, kinetic sculpture and performance art are directly related to this principle.

Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), Marcel Duchamp1912. Oil on canvas, 57 7/8" × 35 1/8"

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Film: Race Horse First Film Ever 1878 Eadweard

Muybridge

Performance: The Lovers, 2005, Bill Viola

Sculpture Theo Jansen's Object which I made with paper

Kinetic Art Examples

BalanceBalance - placing elements so that their

visual weights seem evenly distributed.

Types of balance: Symmetrical: exact or even balance of objects or activity in a

composition (mirror images)

Asymmetrical: careful distribution of uneven elements. counterbalanced with contrasts such as dull and bright colors, dark with light values, geometric with organic shapes, active and inactive areas

Radial: objects or activity rotating around a center point

Symmetrical Balance

Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue, 1931, Georgia O’Keefe, oil on canvas,39 7/8 x 35 7/8 inches.

A tile from The Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, 1634-1635 A.D

Asymmetrical Balance

Relativity, 1953, M.C. Escher, lithograph, 10.9x11.5 inches

Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red, 1937–42, Piet Mondrian, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 69 cm

Radial Symmetry

Interior of the Rose Stain Glass window at Strasbourg Cathedral.

Strasbourg Cathedral, 1015-1439, Strasbourg, France, architecture, 142 m (466 ft)

World’s tallest building from 1647 to 1874

Symmetry in Architecture

Video

Taj Mahal, 1632–1653, Agra, India, 171 m (561 ft)