The language and elements of art. I'm not too fond on all the things I did, but I was playing around so here we are. I used Glencoe books for this.

1. The Elements
of

2. When you, the artist, create a work of art, you will be faced with a number
of questions:
1. What colors will I use?
2. Will the painting as a whole appear to be smooth or rough
to the touch?
3. Will the objects in the painting look flat and two-
dimensional, or will they appear deep and realistic?
How an artist answers these and other questions determines how the finished
work will look

7. After completing these lessons, you will be
able to:
 Name the seven elements of art
 Identify the three properties of color
 Name the different kinds of line
 Explain the difference between shapes and
forms
 Explain how we experience texture
 Experiment with the elements of art

8. Words to learn
analogous colors × color wheel × complementary
colors
form × hue × intensity × line
line quality × line variation × monochromatic
colors
motif × shape × space × texture × value

9. The Visual Language of
Art

10. Since the earliest times
people have used the
language of art to speak to
each other. Early artwork,
such as cave paintings, show
that humans were writing in
pictures some 12,000 years
before the invention of the
alphabet.

12. “A picture is worth a thousand
words” In a very real sense, this saying is
true.
The frightened mother was locked in a terrible
struggle with the phantom, who greedily eyed
her child. “No!” the mother’s wide eyes
protested. “No—you can never have him!” As her
heart raced wildly, the mother clutched her little
boy to her body with the strength of 10 men. But
no matter how hard she fought, little by little she
felt her grip weaken. Slowly—ever so slowly—
the child was slipping from her fingers. In the
end, she was no match for the phantom. Death,
she knew in that awful final instant, would soon
claim another helpless victim.

13. The frightened mother was locked
in a terrible struggle with the
phantom, who greedily eyed her
child. “No!” the mother’s wide eyes
protested. “No—you can never have
him!” As her heart raced wildly, the
mother clutched her little boy to
her body with the strength of 10
men. But no matter how hard she
fought, little by little she felt her
grip weaken. Slowly—ever so
slowly—the child was slipping from
her fingers. In the end, she was no
match for the phantom. Death, she
knew in that awful final instant,
would soon claim another helpless

14. The Vocabulary of Art

15. o Every language has its own word system, or
vocabulary
o Before you speak a language, you should at
least know some of the words in its vocabulary
o Art, too, has a vocabulary all its own
o Instead of words, however, the vocabulary of
art is made up of seven visual elements

16. An element of art is a basic visual symbol an artist
uses to create visual art
Color | Line | Shape | Form
| Space | Texture | Value

17. The way we put words
together to form a sentence,
the artist puts the visual
elements together to make
a statement.