Elements of Art - Texture

Texture

Texture is the surface quality that can be seen and felt. Textures can be rough or smooth, soft or hard. Textures do not always feel the way they look; for example, a drawing of a porcupine may look prickly, but if you touch the drawing, the paper is still smooth.

Elements of Art - Color

Color

Color is light reflected off of objects. Color has three main characteristics: hue (the name of the color, such as red, green, blue, etc.), value (how light or dark it is), and intensity (how bright or dull it is). 

• White is pure light; black is the absence of light. 

• Primary colors are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All other colors are mixes of primary colors. 

• Secondary colors are two primary colors mixed together (green, orange, violet). 

• Intermediate colors, sometimes called tertiary colors, are made by mixing a primary and secondary color together. Some examples of intermediate colors are yellow green, blue green, and blue violet. 

• Complementary colors are located directly across from each other on the color wheel (an arrangement of colors along a circular diagram to show how they are related to one another). Complementary pairs contrast because they share no common colors. For example, red and green are complements, because green is made of blue and yellow. When complementary colors are mixed together, they neutralize each other to make brown.

Elements of Art - Space

Space

Space is the area between and around objects. The space around objects is often called negative space; negative space has shape. Space can also refer to the feeling of depth. Real space is three-dimensional; in visual art, when we create the feeling or illusion of depth, we call it space.

Elements of Art - Forms

Forms

Forms are three-dimensional shapes expressing length, width, and depth. Balls, cylinders, boxes, and pyramids are forms.

Elements of Art - Line

Line

Line is a mark with greater length than width. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; straight or curved; thick or thin.

Elements of Art - Shape

Shape 

Shape is a closed line. Shapes can be geometric, like squares and circles; or organic, like free-form or natural shapes. Shapes are flat and can express length and width. 

Movie Monday Questions - Gordon Parks Part 1&2

1. Gordon was supposed to die soon after death, but the doctor managed to save him.
2. Fort Scott, Kansas.
3. There are only a few black student that go to college.
4. 15.
5. The streets.
6. When he became older.
7. Taking photo of models.
8. Double exposure is a fatal error in photos caused by light exposure
9. Heavyweight boxing champion.
10. Piano.
11. To chronicle the dark side of Chicago's South Side.
12. To take pictures like the American Gothic.
13. Photographer from the FSA.
14. Gordon's imagination.
15. A lot of things.