INTRODUCTORY
FORM
LINE
SHAPE
VALUE
TEXTURE
COLOR

Links
Form | Line | Shape | Value | Texture |Color

FORM

• Negative space
• patterns of the Alhambra
• tessellation
• Escher,
• Mondrian here (Wikipedia) and here (visual progression of abstraction),
• Golden Spiral and Fibonacci

LINE

• line art (Wikipedia),
• Examples of line drawing by Van Gogh
• line print by Albrecht Dürer
• Vollard Suite etchings by Picasso
• paintings by Amelia Peláez here and here
• simple strong lines of a painting by Jose Clemente Orozco hereand a sketch here, and finally
• drawings by sculptor Martin Puryear

SHAPE

• examples of anthropomorphic art by Dali,
• William Blake
• Biomorphic Bullby Picasso
• design example from 2-d design here
• Abstract biomorphic paintings by Joán Miro, his Singing Fish and a rooster....

VALUE

• As expressed by atmospheric perspective
• Value in photography Imogen Cunningham
• Film Clips Page
• Black, White and Grey art: Guernica by Picasso
• paintings by Kazuya Akimoto

TEXTURE

• stippling
• scumbling.
• texture charts
• drawn and painted textures here
• Starry Night, Van Gogh (detail here).
• Collage by Picasso (Still Life with Chair Caning).
• The work of Seo-Bo Park focuses on texture and simple color planes: current work,
• Roy Lichtensteing "Cubist Still Life with Playing Cards",
• Vic Muniz here, here, and here.
• Andrew Wyeth here and here (Spring Beauty)
  

COLOR

Color wheel with Primary, Secondary and Tertiary colors...

Goethe's color theory, and his original color wheel...

The Fauvists (French for "Wild Beasts")

• Here is the Wiki about the Fauvist movement,
• André Derain's The Turning Road, L´Estaque,
• and another by Derain, Le Cavalier au cheval blanc [Knight on a white horse]
• Portrait of Madame Matisse (Green Stripe) 1905 by Henri Matisse.

Others

Peter Halley takes juxtaposition of colors and minimalist geometric forms to extremes... see peterhalley.com

Color and Emotions:

• color meaning
• Color Matters
• Relationship between color and emotion: a study of college students

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