The Elements of Art…
•  Texture
•  Form
•  Color
•  Shape
•  Space
•  Value
•  Line
•  The
•  Fat
•  Cat
•  Sang
•  Songs
•  Very
•  Loudly
The path of a moving point at the
edge of a flat shape, or outline of a
solid object.
It could also be
called the
shortest distance
between two
points or a “dot”
that went for a
walk.
Pablo Picasso
“Light Drawing”
1949
Picasso
“Dog”
1954
Shape is a two-dimensional area
made by connecting lines that
establish the contour of an object.
Shapes may be organic or geometric.
Shapes may stand out also by a
difference of value, color, or texture.
Picasso
“Bull”
1958
The character of a surface created by the
response of vision to the wavelength of light
reflections. Color is typically categorized into
warm, cool, primary, secondary, intermediate,
analogous, and complementary color schemes.
Color Affects
MOOD
Picasso
“The Old Guitarist”
1903
Picasso
“Girl Before a Mirror”
1932
Picasso “Still Life with Bull’s head” 1947
Notice how the lack of color changes the mood?
The appearance of lights and darks found in a
work of art. These range from black to white with
numerous shades of gray in between.
Picasso “Guernica” 1937
Picasso “Guernica” 1937
The roughness or smoothness of
a surface. Texture can be real,
tactile(sandpaper), or illusion
(looks soft, but not).
Picasso “Goat Skull with bottle” 1932
Picasso “Goat Skull with bottle” 1932
The three dimensional projection
of a shape, it has volume,
dimension, appears to have mass.
This element is frequently used in
sculpture.
Picasso
“The Bull”
1945
Actual Three
Dimensional Form
Picasso
“Maid”
1933
Implied Three
Dimensional Form
Interval of measurable
distance between
pre-established points.
Picasso Sculpture
in Daley Plaza
Chicago, Illinois, 1967
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Picasso “dog” 1954 http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1050&bih=615&tbm=isch&tbnid=NBmgi_L0YC4HSM:&imgrefurl=http://www.dogpages.org.uk/forums/
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Picasso “bull” 1958 http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1050&bih=615&tbm=isch&tbnid=8IsjtxT3qqRsbM:&imgrefurl=http://kgspeng.blogspot.com/2011/01/group-4-inarena-young-man-killing.html&docid=0INPjaw087bBjM&imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZI1Od5NPJ8/TSRiSAFah7I/AAAAAAAAAAc/VmI419TE3t4/s400/pablo%25252Bpicasso
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Picasso “the old guitarist” 1903 http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1050&bih=615&tbm=isch&tbnid=kuP7tobe4DIOuM:&imgrefurl=http://www.pablopicasso.org/oldguitarist.jsp&docid=3JlvvZjPT7plUM&imgurl=http://www.pablopicasso.org/images/paintings/the-oldguitarist.jpg&w=997&h=1500&ei=mUAZUMPFO4j49QSruYHYAw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=464&sig=108255689122167139998&page=1&tbnh=155&tbnw=99&start=0&ndsp=15&ved
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Picasso “Girl before mirror” 1932 http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1050&bih=615&tbm=isch&tbnid=cik9F4bfihVC9M:&imgrefurl=http://
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Picasso “still life with bull’s head” 1947 http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1050&bih=615&tbm=isch&tbnid=m_3VLvf-ebPBnM:&imgrefurl=http://
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Picasso “guernica” 1937 http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1050&bih=615&tbm=isch&tbnid=qUZrPD3gkhNsiM:&imgrefurl=http://viz.cwrl.utexas.edu/node/
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Picasso “goat skull with bottle” 1932