Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Creative Impulse -- Looking at Life and Art -- Nature -- Culture -- Art History -- Yourself -- Thinking and Writing about Life and Art: Recording, Interpreting, Communicating -- Understanding Art -- Subject versus Content -- Theory & Practice Giving Form to Experience -- Form -- Content -- Iconography -- Compare & Contrast -- A Style by Any Other Name ... Appropriation and Subversion in Contemporary Art -- Putting It All Together -- The Visual Elements -- Visual Elements -- Principles of Design -- Putting It All Together -- Principles of Design -- Mediums and Techniques -- Style -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 2. Line -- Line, Communication, and the Impulse to Order -- Characteristics of Line -- The Measure of Line -- Types and Qualities of Lines -- Directionality of Line: Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal -- Compare & Contrast. Contents note continued: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Two Revealing Self-Portraits by Vincent van Gogh -- Location of Line -- Actual, Implied, and Psychological Lines -- Line and Shape -- Outline and Contour Line -- Line, Value, and Shape -- Line and Texture -- Interpretation of the Quality of Line -- Closure and Continuity -- The Expressive Language of Line -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 3. Shape -- Shape, Form, Volume, and Mass -- Shape -- Form -- Volume -- Mass -- Types of Shape -- Geometric Shapes -- Organic Shapes -- Compare & Contrast -- The Expressive Potential of Shape -- Nonobjective and Abstract Shapes -- Amorphous Shapes and Shapelessness in Art -- Positive and Negative Shapes---Figure and Ground -- Using Shape -- Shape as Icon -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 4. Value -- Shades of Gray -- Value Contrast -- Value Pattern -- Low-Key and High-Key Values -- Chiaroscuro. Contents note continued: Theory & Practice The Fundamentals of Chiaroscuro -- Tenebrism -- Highlights and Cast Shadows -- Descriptive and Expressive Properties of Value -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 5. Color -- Color and Light -- The Science of Light -- Bringing Color Full Circle -- Additive and Subtractive Colors -- Cool and Warm Colors -- Properties of Color -- Hue -- Value -- Intensity, Chroma, and Saturation -- Color Mixing -- Visual Color Mixing in Practice -- Physical Color Mixing in Practice -- Theory & Practice Interacting with Color -- Color and Principles of Design -- Color and Emphasis -- Color and Balance -- Compare & Contrast -- Everything Old Is New Again: Keith Haring Meets Michelangelo -- Color Schemes: Harmony and Disharmony -- The Monochromatic Color Scheme -- The Analogous Color Scheme -- Complementary Color Schemes -- Split-Complementary Color Schemes -- Triadic Color Schemes -- Color Disharmony -- Local, Optical, and Arbitrary Color. Contents note continued: Color and Symbolism -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 6. Texture -- Types of Texture -- Actual Texture -- Compare & Contrast -- Humans vs. Nature: The Raft of the Medusa -- Visual Texture -- Subversive Texture -- Using Texture -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 7. Space -- Creating the Illusion of Space -- Relative Size -- Overlapping -- Transparency -- Location -- Atmospheric Perspective -- Linear Perspective -- Compare & Contrast -- So Close and Yet So Far: Perspective, Physical Proximity, and Emotional Distance -- Optical and Conceptual Representation -- Multiple Perspectives -- Amplified Perspective -- Isometric Projection -- Theory & Practice Creating the Illusion of Space in Sculpture -- Actual Space -- Architecture -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 8. Time And Motion -- Actual Motion -- Kinetic Art -- Recording Actual Motion -- Illusion of Motion -- Multiple Exposures and Blurred Lines. Contents note continued: Optical Sensations -- Theory & Practice Chasing the Fourth Dimension: Loie Fuller -- Implied Motion -- The Fourth Dimension -- Time and Motion -- Motion Pictures: Film and Video -- Manipulating Time -- Animation -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 9. Unity And Variety -- Ways to Achieve Unity -- Proximity -- Repetition -- Color and Value -- Line -- Shape -- Theory & Practice: Unity and Variety in Grant Wood's American Gothic -- Texture -- Continuity -- The Grid -- Unity with Variety -- Repetition -- Contrast -- Structure -- Motif -- Emphasis on Unity -- Emphasis on Variety -- Emphasis on Disunity -- Conceptual and Symbolic Unity and Disunity -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 10. Focal Point And Emphasis -- The Relationship between Focal Point and Emphasis -- Methods of Creating Focal Point and Emphasis -- Directional Lines -- Contrast -- Placement -- Isolation -- Theory & Practice Focal Point and Emphasis. Contents note continued: Multiple Focal Points -- Absence of Focal Point -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 11. Balance And Rhythm -- Actual Balance -- Pictorial Balance -- Horizontal Balance -- Vertical Balance -- Diagonal Balance -- Radial Balance -- Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Balance -- Symmetrical Balance -- Asymmetrical Balance -- Ways to Achieve Balance -- Value and Color -- Shape and Texture -- Pattern -- Position -- Using Balance and Imbalance -- Rhythm -- Types of Rhythm -- Key Terms -- Artists on Art -- Digital Resources -- 12. Scale And Proportion -- Size and Scale -- The Size of Art -- Relative Size -- Scale in Art -- Hierarchical Scale -- Compare & Contrast -- Symbols, Scale, and Sacred Space -- Size, Scale, and Symbolism -- Proportion -- Theory & Practice Polykleitos's Canon: The Body Beautiful -- The Golden Mean: "Moderation in All Things" -- The Golden Rectangle -- The Spiral -- Fibonacci Numbers -- The Root Five Rectangle -- Key Terms. Contents note continued: Artists on Art -- Digital Resources.

Packed with hundreds of examples of classic and contemporary art, this book delivers a comprehensive guide to basic design that provides the ideal foundation to design principles.

Junior High School

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