Elements Examples

TEXTURE
#1 | Donatello | Mary Magdalene | 1455 | wood
188 cm high | Museo dell’Opera del Duomo: Florence, Italy
#2 | Anslem Kiefer | Nigredo | 1984 | oil, acrylic, emulsion, straw on photograph on canvas
330 × 555 cm | Philadelphia Museum of Art: Philadelphia, PA
#3 | Audrey Flack | Queen | 1976 | acrylic on canvas
203 x 203 cm | Louis K. Meisel Gallery: New York, NY
#4 | Chuck Close | Big Self-Portrait | 1968 | acrylic on canvas
273 x 212 cm | Walker Art Center: Minneapolis, MN
#5 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Luncheon of the Boating Party | 1880 | oil on canvas
130 x 173 cm | The Phillips Collection: Washington, DC
#6 | Katsushika Hokusai | The Great Wave off Kanagawa | 1829-32 | color woodcut
26 x 38 cm | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, NY
SPACE
#1 | Pieter Bruegel the Elder | The Hunters in the Snow | 1565 | oil on panel
117 x 162 cm | Kunsthistorisches Museum: Vienna, Austria
#2 | Henri Rousseau | The Sleeping Gypsy | 1897 | oil on canvas
129 x 201 cm | Museum of Modern Art: New York, NY
#3 | Ed Ruscha | Standard Station, Amarillo,Texas | 1963 | oil on canvas
164 x 309 cm | Hood Museum of Art: Hanover, NH
#4 | Winslow Homer | Snap the Whip | 1872 | oil on canvas
30 x 51 cm | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, NY
#5 | René Magritte | The Blank Signature | 1965 | oil on canvas
81 x 65 cm | National Gallery of Art: Washington, DC
#6 | Raphael Sanzio | The Marriage of the Virgin | 1504 | oil on panel
174 x 121 cm | Pinacoteca di Brera: Milan, Italy
SHAPE
#1 | Henri Toulouse-Lautrec | Moulin Rouge: La Goulue | 1891 | color lithograph
170 x 119 cm | Indianapolis Museum of Art: Indianapolis, IN
#2 | Pablo Picasso | Three Musicians | 1921 | oil on canvas
201 x 223 cm | Museum of Modern Art: New York, NY
#3 | Helen Frankenthaler | The Bay | 1963 | acrylic on canvas
205 x 208 cm | Detroit Institute of Arts: Detroit, MI
#4 | Aaron Douglas | Aspiration | 1936 | oil on canvas
152 x 152 cm | De Young Museum: San Francisco, CA
#5 | Joan Miró | Dutch Interior II | 1928 | oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm | Guggenheim Museum: New York, NY
#6 | Kazimir Malevich | Suprematist Composition | 1916 | oil on canvas
325 x 204 cm | Private Collection
LINE
#1 | Vasily Kandinsky | Composition 8 | 1923 | oil on canvas
140 x 201 cm | Guggenheim Museum: New York, NY
#2 | Jean Dubuffet | Site Inhabited by Objects | 1965 | acrylic on canvas
130 x 162 cm | Tate Collection: London, United Kingdom
#3 | Albrecht Dürer | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | 1497-98 | woodcut
39 x 28 cm | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, NY
#4 | Roy Lichtenstein | Grrrrrrrrrrr!! | 1965 | oil and magna on canvas
173 x 142 cm | Guggenheim Museum: New York, NY
#5 | Edvard Munch | The Scream | 1893 | oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard
91 x 73 cm | National Gallery: Oslo, Norway
#6 | Franz Kline | Painting Number 2 | 1954 | oil on canvas
204 x 272 cm | Museum of Modern Art: New York, NY
COLOR
#1 | Arshile Gorky | Water of the Flowery Mill | 1944 | oil on canvas
107 x 124 cm | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, NY
#2 | Henri Matisse | Portrait of Madame Matisse (Green Stripe) | 1905 | oil on canvas
40 x 32 cm | Statens Museum for Kunst: Copenhagen, Denmark
#3 | Mark Rothko | No. 5/No. 22 | 1950 | oil on canvas
297 x 272 cm | Museum of Modern Art: New York, NY
#4 | Pablo Picasso | Melancholy Woman | 1902 | oil on canvas
100 x 69 cm | Detroit Institute of Arts: Detroit, MI
#5 | Michelangelo Buonarroti | Delphic Sibyl (ceiling detail) | 1508-12 | fresco
350 x 380 cm | Sistine Chapel: Vatican City, Italy
#6 | Jacques-Louis David | Oath of the Horatii | 1784 | oil on canvas
326 cm × 420 cm | Louvre: Paris, France