LESSON 3 ORGANIZATION IN ARTS

• MEDIUM are concrete; ELEMENTS are abstract.
• LINE is the simplest, most primitive, and most universal means for creating visual art.
• LINE always has direction and is always active. It always seem to be moving.
• Straight lines are HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL, or DIAGONAL.
• HORIZONTAL LINE is the primary line of rest and quiet, relaxation and contemplation.
• A LONG horizontal line gives a sense of INFINITY
• Horizontal Lines are found in landscape, the QUIETER the landscape, the more prominent the horizontals.
• VERTICAL LINE is the line of rest, but not the rest of relaxation we find horizontally.
• The VERTICAL LINE is a line of potential action, though it is not acting.
• DIAGONAL LINE is the line of action.
• In a diagonal line, at an angle of 45 DEGREES, the diagonal represents the maximum action, being halfway between the independence of the 15 vertical and the powerlessness of horizontal.
• DIAGONAL LINES connote confusion, disturbance, lightning, battle, war, and sudden death.
• CURVED LINES show action and life and energy; they are never harsh or stern.
• A QUICK CURVE is an arc of a small circle.
• A QUICK CURVE is more exuberant than the slow curve, when used in great abundance, it becomes COARSE AND GROSS.
• A SLOW CURVE is an arc of a large circle.
• A DOUBLE CURVE is the famous "line of grace" or "line of beauty" of Hogarth.
• VALUE has to do with the amount of light in a given painting or graphic work of art.
• VALUE indicates the degree of LUMINOSITY - presence or absence of light.
• WHITE is recognized as the highest value in the color wheel, and is the absence of color.
• BLACK is the lowest value on the color wheel and is the absence of all colors.
• A halfway between White and Black is called MEDIUM.
• The point halfway between white and medium may be called LIGHT.
• The point halfway between MEDIUM and BLACK may be called DARK.
• LIGHT AND SHADOW are also known as CHIAROSCURO, from the Italian word for "light and dark."
• LIGHT AND SHADOW should be distinguished from value. It is also a means of modeling a figure in-depth, a means of articulating the form.
• COLOR increases the effects obtained through line and value.
• Colors may be WARM or COLD, ADVANCING or RETREATING, LIGHT or HEAVY, ATTRACTIVE or REPULSIVE, IN TENSION or IN SUSPENSION.
• HUE is a quality of color that distinguish one color from another.
• RED means warm and is a primary hue associated with warmth. It is an advancing color.
• ORANGE means warm and is a secondary hue associated with warmth. It is an advancing color and is halfway between Red and Yellow.
• YELLOW means neither warm nor cool, it is a primary hue associated with divinity.
• GREEN means cool and is a secondary hue associated with cool subjects in nature. It is a retreating color and is halfway between Yellow and Blue.
• BLUE means cool and is a primary hue associated with restfulness. It is a retreating color.
• VIOLET means neither warm nor cool, it is a secondary hue associated with truth and spirituality. It is halfway between Blue and Red.
• ADVANCING COLORS are when warm colors always seem closer than the cool colors.
• RETREATING COLORS are when cool colors are always seem farther away than the warm colors.
• Colors can only be known in VALUES. Any color may be seen at any degree if darkness, from a dark that can be hardly distinguished from black to light that is almost white.
• Colors differ in INTENSITY or Vividness. Two colors may be both blue, one just as dark as the other, but one may be more intense than the other.
• The 3 qualities or attributes of color are HUE, VALUE, and INTENSITY