Fundamentals

ARTS 1301, Unit 1

Laying Out an Image

Laying Out an Image

Lines

Untitled, Banksy, 2007 CE

Whaam!, Roy Lichtenstein, 1963 CE

Hackney Rabbit, Roa, 2010 CE

Laying Out an Image

Form

Cloud Gate, Anish Kapoor, 2004 CE

Cube XIX, David Smith, 1964CE

Composition VIII (The Cow), Theo Van Doesburg, 1917 CE

Large Bathers, Paul Cézanne , 1898 CE

Raft of the Medusa, Théodore Géricault, 1819 CE

Laying Out an Image

Space

Olmec Colossal Heads, 1500-400 BCE

Pantheon, 126 CE

Untitled Grave Marker, Arnaldo Pomodoro, 21st cent. CE

Il Duomo di Firenze (Interior), 1436 CE

Il Duomo di Siena (Interior), 1348 CE

Last Judgement, Michelangelo, 1536-1541 CE

School of Athens, Raphael, 1509-1511 CE

Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church, 1859 CE

View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields, Jacob van Ruisdael, 1670-1675 CE

Monk by the Sea, Caspar David Friedrich, 1810 CE

Immanuel Kant

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the Sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the Sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.


Immanuel Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason, 1781

Laying Out an Image

Scale & Proportion

Color

Color

Color Theory

Color

Light & Pigment

Pigment

Light

Primary Colors

The Mystery of Purple

Color

Psychology of Color

Drawing

Paper is the foundation of most drawings and it comes in a variety of types

Paper thickness is also important to consider

Hatching is a foundational drawing technique

Silverpoint is a very old technique that makes durable & detailed drawings

Pencils were once made with lead, but graphite is most common today

Example of a graphite sketch

Example of a detailed graphite drawing

Introducing color to a pencil drawing can have a dramatic effect

Charcoal is arguably the oldest drawing media and has a unique look

Example of a charcoal sketch

Self-Portrait
by Kathe Kollwitz

An Elderly Peasant Woman
by Léon Augustin Lhermitte

Example of a chalk and charcoal drawing

Sanguine looks like red chalk/charcoal, but is in fact a rock used by painters to sketch

Pastels are traditionally oil-based drawing media

Example of a finished pastel drawing

Pen and ink drawings have a very illustrative effect

Example of a pen and ink line drawing

Example of a pen and ink drawing

Content Analysis

Content Analysis

Form & Style

Content Analysis

Context & Iconography

Content Analysis

Feminism & Gender Studies