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The Visual Elements: I
Lecture 3A
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Lecture Overview:
The 5 Main Visual Elements
1. Line /Shape
2 Space
3. Texture/Pattern
4. Time / Motion
5. Light / Color
“The language of art is
…the visual elements.”
“ I found I could only say
things with color that I
couldn’t say in any other
way—things I had no words
for.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
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1. LINE
Lines are our basic means for
recording and symbolizing
ideas, observations, and
feelings.
Begin your examination of
every work by looking at and
describing the lines you see.
How many types of lines can
we as a class come up with?
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FUNCTIONS OF LINE
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Function 1: Indicate the edge of a 2D or 3D form
Outlines: indicate the edges of a two-dimensional shape.
Contours: indicate the edges of a three-dimensional form.
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Implied lines: lines created by the viewer’s perception.
Dotted lines
Pointing our finger
Lines of sight
Following the
edges of several
objects to create a
shape
Giacometti, Man Pointing, 1947.
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Function 2: Direct the viewer’s gaze
Titian, Assumption and Consecration of the
Virgin, ca. 1516-1518.
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Function 3: Suggest Movement or Stillness
Theodore Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819
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Horizontal and Vertical = Stillness, Stability
Diagonal = Movement, Chaos
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Function 4: To convey emotional states.
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What do the lines in this work tell us about Socrates’ attitude
towards his imminent death by a cup of poison?
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SHAPE, MASS, AND SPACE
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SHAPE and MASS Shape: a 2D form that
occupies area with identifiable boundaries that can be measured in height and width.
Mass: a 3D form that occupies a actual space. Has height, width, and depth.
Mondrian, 1930 and Sennefer, New Kingdom Egypt
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Positive and Negative Shapes
Positive shapes: the
figures that draw our
attention (often the
sujbect matter).
Negative shapes: the
background.
Since we are used to
filtering out the
background, we have to
shift our awareness and
learn to see everything
the artist has included.
Donald Sultan, Lemons, May 16, 1984, 1984.
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What are the positive and negative shapes in
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks?
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2. SPACE
Actual space: space of the real world occupied by 3D arts. To
fully understand a work of art in actual space, the viewer must
walk around or in the artwork.
Ara Pacis Augustae, 12-9 BCE. Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate, 2004
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Implied space/depth: the illusion of space created on a
2D surface. Oftentimes created through a combo of
techniques.
Caillebtotte, Paris
Street on a Rainy
Day, 1876-1877.
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TRICKS AND TECHNIQUES
TO CREATE THE ILLUSION
OF SPACE ON A 2D SURFACE
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Techniques 1, 2, and 3: Overlapping, Diminishing Size,
and Vertical Placement
Clues to Spatial Depth
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Technique 4: Linear Perspective
A technique based on the observation that parallel lines seem to
converge as they recede from the viewer, finally meeting at a
vanishing point. Linear perspective relies on a fixed viewpoint.
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Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-1498.
1 point Linear Perspective as developed during
the Italian Renaissance
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Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-1498.
1 point Linear Perspective as developed during
the Italian Renaissance
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A work MUST HAVE 1 or 2 precise vanishing points to be linear
perspective.
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A work MUST HAVE 1 or 2 precise vanishing points to be linear
perspective.
Duccio, Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, 1308-1311.
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Which work
uses linear
perspective?
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Technique 5: Oblique Projection
The Three Sacred Shrines at Kumano,
ca. 1300.
A means of representing
buildings in which one side is
parallel to the picture plane,
and the sides of the buildings
use parallel oblique (ie slanted
lines).
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Technique 6: Atmospheric Perspective
A technique based on the observation that objects appear paler and/or bluer, and less distinct the further away they are from the viewer due to the way moisture in the intervening atmosphere scatters light.
Durand, Kindred Spirits. See also Albert Beirstadt.
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Technique 7: Foreshortening
Foreshortening is when
the dimensions of the
closer extremities are
adjusted in order to make
up for the distortion
created by the point of
view.
Difficult technique to
master!
Andrea Mantegna, The Dead Christ,
1501.
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Left: What a realistic image of a man from this perspective
would look like.
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FLAT SPACE IN NON-
WESTERN AND MODERN ART
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Western artists trained
in a mimetic mode of
representation saw
new ways of depicting
space when introduced
to Japanese works.
FLAT
No “in-between” space
Odd cropping
Few values
Hiroshige, Moon Pine, Ueno, No. 89, 1856.
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What gives
Matisse’s Harmony
in Red a flat, 2D
feel?
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Can a contemporary, non-representational work embody space? Why
or why not?
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TEXTURE, PATTERN, TIME,
AND MOTION
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3. TEXTURE and PATTERN
Texture: the
surface quality of a
work. Can be
actual, implied
(visual), or both.
Michelangelo, The Pieta (detail of
the Virgin Mary), 1501.
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What implied (visual)
textures are visible in
Ingres’ Comtess
d’Haussonville?
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3. TEXTURE and PATTERN
Pattern: a repetitive
motif or design.
Often associated
with
decorative/functional
arts and crafts.
Kente prestige cloth, Ghana, 19th
century.
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Pattern is often found in the arts
of people that have prohibited
representational art.
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4. TIME and MOTION
Artists throughout the ages have sought to represent the passage of time and the movement of objects through space.
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Scenes from Genesis in
the Moutier-Grandval
Bible, ca. 840
Registers: bands of
decoration. Can contain
narrative scenes.
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Implied Motion
The viewer infers
motion is occurring
through diagonal lines
and/or repetition.
Bernini, David, 1623.
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Actual motion
Kinetic art:
art that moves
Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1977.
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Motion in the Arts in the 20th and 21st centuries
In the 20th century, new technologies and media allowed for new ways in which to include the elements of time and motion in the arts.
Dervish video on YouTube
Jennifer Steinhamp, Dervish, detail of a
video installation in New York, 2004.
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Motion Pictures (and TV shows!)