Color – Hue

Medium: Digital
Source: http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-theory-intro.htm

Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Title of the Work: Starry Night
Year Produced: 1889
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night

Hue is basically the term for the different base colors (red,blue,yellow,ect…). The top picture is an example of a color wheel portraying the 12 most basic hues. The bottom is a piece that uses different hues very effectively, most specifically yellow and blue. Van Gogh uses yellow and blue in a complementary way to make the piece very pleasing to the eye, as well as these colors (the cool blue and the washed out yellow) providing a sense of calm. Using hues together in certain ways are very important because they can set the overall mood for a piece easily.

Texture – Actual

Artist: John Salvest
Title of Work: 22 Caliber Flag
Year Produced: 2001
Medium: Lead and copper tipped bullets
Source: http://johnsalvest.com/objects.html

Artist: Mark Langan
Title of Work: Diamond K., Inc
Year Produced: Unlisted
Medium: Cardboard
Source of Image: http://www.langanart.com/art-gallery-new/view/2.html

These are both really great examples of actual texture in art. The top piece, using lead and copper tipped bullets to create an image of the American flag, and the bottom, creating a beautiful scene out of recycled cardboard. The top uses actual texture in a way that creates a more powerful message, as well as simply being very interesting as compared to what it would be in 2-D. The way in which the bottom uses actual texture makes the image much more interesting as well being more catching due to the fact that it is made out of a strange material.

Texture – Implied

Artist: M.C. Escher
Title of Work: Still Life with Spherical Mirror
Year produced: 1934
Medium: Lithography
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Life_with_Spherical_Mirror

Artist: Alyssa Monks
Title of Work: Smirk
Year Produced: 2009
Medium: Oil on Linen
Source of Image: http://alyssamonks.com/popup/popup.asp?sid=5A703C03-07DF-4892-8C93-C85A99011770&imgname=smirk.jpg

Both of these pieces are very good examples of implied texture. Implied texture being texture that is not actually present in the piece (you could not touch the piece and feel different textures), but visually seems to be present in the piece. In the piece by M.C. Escher, he uses value very well to create a strong texture in the reflective surface of the round mirror, it feels as if you could touch it and feel the smooth surface, he also contrasts this with the more rough, dull textures in the surrounding items. In the piece by Alyssa Monks she uses texture to create what seems to be a shower scene with extremely realistic water as well as an extremely realistic figure. The implied texture makes the piece itself look as if somebody as sprinkled water on it.

Line: Extension

This piece is an example of extension lines. Extension lines are temporary lines normally used in drawing to aid in measurement from one object to another, or to keep things on the same plane. In this piece, the extension lines happen to be present in the finished work. This gives the work an unfinished and messy look, which can actually be quite interesting.

Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Title of Work: Reviews of Diego
Year Produced: 1953Medium: Oil
Source: http://www.surrealists.co.uk/viewPicture/103/

This is a good example of how to use extension lines in one point perspective. This was meant to be more of an example than an actual piece, so it leaves in all of the lines used. The lines here are used to help base things on the same plane as well as keeping them in the single perspective.

Source: http://www.bramhaa.com/draw-it-all-%E2%80%93-one-point-perspective-for-beginners-in-animation/691

Line: Schematic

This is an example of line used in schematics. It’s laying out the second floor for the Akron Art Museum in Akron, Ohio.

Source: http://archidose.blogspot.com/2008/08/building-diagrams.html

This is another example of line used in schematics. It’s the schematic plan for an A-12 plane.

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/a-12/a-12-schematic.html

Value

Artist: Chuck Close
Title of work: Big Self Portrait
Year produced: 1967-68
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Source of image: http://www.walkerart.org/collections/artworks/big-self-portrait

This piece utilizes value extremely well. The fact that it’s done completely in black and white as well as being extremely photo realistic shows the impressive range of value that Chuck manages to use in the piece. He uses the darkest black all the way to white and every hue in between.

 

Artist: Paul Cadden
Title of Work: After
Year Produced: Unknown
Medium: Pencil on Recycled Cartridge paper
Source: http://www.paulcadden.com/#!portraits/c18ty

This is another beautiful example of value. In this piece he utilizes value in a way that allows him to express water photo-realistically, as well as the figure in the piece.

Line: Psychic

Artist: Edgar Degas
Title of Work: The Dace Class
Year Produced: 1874
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Source: http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/edgar-degas/the-dancing-class-1874

Psychic line are invisible lines that are made in a piece in many way. This piece employes psychic line effectively by using the psychic lines from the girls eyes to the male teacher in the middle to create a focal point on the teacher. The bottom ballerina’s dress also creates a psychic line that leads to the teacher as well.

 

Artist: Edgar Degas
Title of Work: Danseuses à la barre
Year Produced: 1877
Medium: Oil on canvas
Source: http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/edgar-degas/dancers-practicing-at-the-barre-1877

This piece also uses psychic line very well to create a focal point and keep you there. From either direction on the ballerinas, there extended legs, dress, and body curvature lead your eye in between the two ballerinas and it seems to stay there considering the lines created from their straight legs almost block you in.

Line: Implied

Artist: Tornwing
Title: Untitled
Year Produced: Unknown
Medium: Unknown
Source: http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/line-drawings

I really enjoy this piece because its a really good example of implied line. Implied line, most commonly, is using any sort of broken line to create the sense of a line without it being there. The way they use it in this piece makes it much more visually interesting because you have to search a bit more for the image that you normally would.

 

Artist: Suzanne Caporael
Title of Work: Seeing Things: Rain
Year Produced: 1990
Medium: Color Woodcut
Source: http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/encyc_lineimplied.html

In this piece the artist uses implied line to represent the rain. Instead of using full lines to show rainfall, he uses dashed line. This gives more of a feel to the rain and makes the piece more interesting than if it were solid diagonal lines.

Line: Actual

Artist: Bruce Pollock
Title of Work: Labyrinth
Year Produced: Undated
Medium: Pencil and Ink on Paper
Source of image: http://brucepollock.com/paper.html

I really enjoy this image because using basic line to create basic shapes, he made a piece that resembles a whole landscape, when really its just the repetition of line. Its such a beautiful piece while staying very basic and clean. I particularly like the squiggly lines that form a few different circles, the way these lines are shaped give those circles a completely different feel from the rest.

 

Artist: Perter Root
Title of Work: Untitled
Year Produced: 2000
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Source of Image: http://www.peterroot.com/index.php?/projects/line-drawings/

This piece is a good example of how interesting and beautiful simple line can be. Line is one of the most basic concepts in art, being pretty much any mark made on paper, but it can still be amazing all by itself. This piece is interesting because he utilizes line in a way that creates shapes, value, and depth, though it is still only simple line. The way it tracks around the paper keeps you inside the piece and keeps your eye moving.

Shape: Geometric

Artist: Don Relyea
Title of work: Blue Recursive
Year Produced: 2007
Medium: Digital
Source: http://www.donrelyea.com/hilbert_algorithmic_art_menu.htm

Geometric shapes are shapes that have defined edges, and that are usually seen as more rigid, structured, ect. This piece utilizes only geometric shapes to form a very interesting pattern. I would probably like this piece a lot less if it weren’t for his use of color, using only different shades of blue. I think it makes the piece extremely visually appealing.

 

Artist: David Mesguich and Valentin Van der Meulen
Title of Work: FOLDS
Year Produced: 2009
Medium: Polypropylene
Source: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/geometry/

This image is an extremely interesting geometric piece. Most of what I like about it is that it’s portraying a very organic figures, a skull and faces, using rigid, geometric shapes. Though it is easily recognizable, I think the way he uses the geometric shapes obscure the image enough to draw your interest in easily.