Recap of Lecture 1

Formal elements- Line, Space, Light & Value

Light: Three Sources of Light?

Space-Negative Space (unoccupied areas left after the positive shapes have been laid down by the artist)

COLOR: The Language of Art and Architecture

Color-Four Properties

Hue-Pure State of Color (Red, Yellow, Blue)

Value-Lightness and Darkness within a Hue

Shade-When Black is added to Hue

Intensity-Brightness and fullness of a Hue

Color

Yves Klein, IKB 79, 1959, acrylic, fabric and wood

What are the cool colors? What are the warm colors?

THE COLOR WHEEL

Tom Wesselmann, Bedroom Painting #7, 1967-69 Oil on Canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art

Color: Value or Intensity?

Howard Hodgkin, Rain, 1985-89, Oil on wood, Tate Gallery, London

Color Contrasts and Synthetic Pigments

Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1905, Oil on Canvas

How does Matisse create Volume?

Shapes: An outline of a figure or object

Frank Stella, Hyena Stomp, 1962, Tate Gallery, London

Describe these shapes: zig zag, interlocking, arrows

How are they created here?

Frank Stella, Empress of India, 1965, Metallic powder in polymer emulson paint on canvas, MOMA, NY

Organic-Remind us of animal, human, or natural shapes

Robert Motherwell, The Voyage, 1949, Oil on tempera on paper mounted on

Composition board, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Time & Motion: Formal Elements Continued

Peter Paul Rubens, 1612-18, Oil on Canvas, Prometheus Bound

Rhythm and Pattern: Formal Element

Mondrian, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, Oil on Canvas, 1942-43

RHYTHM & PATTERN- DESCRIBE THE WAYS IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN

Lorna Simpson, Still from Easy to Remember, 2001 16mm film transferred to DVD,Sound, Video Art, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

Texture: Last Formal ElementJean Dubuffet, Monsieur Plume plis au pantalon, Oil with

sand/grit on canvas, 1947, Tate Gallery, London