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Concept	Definition/Notes	Art and Illustrator Models
Line	Experiment with: pattern, thickness, curves, cross-hatching, creating texture	Leonardo Da Vinci Wassily Kandinsky Joan Miro Henri Rousseau Piet Mondrian Vincent van Gogh Ichiryusi Hiroshige
Shape or Form	Any two dimensional area with a recognized boundary. The edge implies a line. Experiment with: abstract, geomentric, recognizable, exaggerated.	Georges Braque Houses at L'Estaque Wayne Thiebaud Pie Counter
Value	Shading, depth of color Gives shapes dimension Range of light and dark	Wayne Thiebaud Pie Counter Marcel Duschamp Chocolate Grinder No. 1 Paul Cezanne Edward Hopper Early Sunday Morning
Color	Primary colors: red, yellow, blue Secondary colors: orange, green, purple Complimentary colors are opposite on the wheel.	Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper Early Sunday Morning, Marc Chagall, Frantisek Kupka Disks of Newton, Franz Mark, Helen Frankenthaler Cravat
Detail	The little, specific touches put into rendering Attention to the smaller areas of an object	Graeme Base Animalia
Composition	How all the shapes are designed on a page. Consider if the piece is balanced. Try to fill up the page. Use a variety of shapes.	Piet Mondrian various paintings Georgia O'Keefe various flower paintings Paul Gauguin Vision After the Sermon 1888 Van Gogh Starry Night
Space and Perspective	Space is thought of as the emptiness that surrounds objects. A sense of space helps to provide perspective. Create perspective by: --overlapping objects --different sizes --perspective planes	Andrew Wyeth Grant Wood American Gothic Charles Demuth I Saw the Fighure 5 in Gold Giorgio de Chirico The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street Raphael School of Athens
Positive and Negative Space	Positive spaces are the shapes Negative space refers to the areas around the shapes Paying attention to the negative space helps to define the shapes Pay attention to balance between the two	Mary Cassatt Girl in Blue Armchair Paul Gauguin Vision After the Sermon 1888
Texture and Movement		Charles Demuth I Saw the Fighure 5 in Gold
Rhythm and Pattern		Henri Matisse Ivy in Flower Charles Demuth I Saw the Fighure 5 in Gold Wayne Thiebaud Pie Counter Edward Hopper Early Sunday Morning
Variety	Consider using variety in: color, size, shape, and detail
Proportion	How parts relate to one another in size.	Diego Riviera