Structural Analysis

Study table

for

FIAR135

Line

• Line is defined as…– The path of a point moving in space or– An invisible line of sight

Examples of the path of a point moving in space

Examples of invisible lines of sight or “implied lines”

Georges de La Tour Adoration of the Shepherds (1644)

LineWhere do you see lines (both visible and implied)?

Mary CassattThe Boating Party (1893-1894)

Color

• Color Wheel• Describing Color:

– Hue • Shade of color

– Tone• Lighter vs. Darker

• How do you describe color?

Mary Cassatt

Children on the Shore (1884)

Color Analysis

• Focus only on the hue of red by using the vocabulary word tone.

Pattern

The degree or contrast of lightness and darkness within a work of art.

Honoré Daumier Third Class Carriage (1862-1864)

Pattern

• Discuss with a neighbor the pattern within the work of art

Leonardo da VinciGinevra de' Benci (c. 1474)

Did you get it right?

Form

• Defined as an object’s shape and structure, either in two dimensions or three dimensions

Form can refer to a three dimensional object such as sculpture, architecture, and “found art” (There is mass and volume).

MichelangeloDavid (1501-1504)

BerniniEcstasy of St. Teresa (1647-1652)

Duane HansonSupermarket Shopper (1970)

The use of a two dimensional surface to create two dimensional forms (Mass and volume are not portrayed due to the lack of

chiaroscuro).

Cimabue

Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets (ca. 1280-1290)

Edvard Munch

Self Portrait: Between Clock and Bed

(1940-1942)

The illusion of three dimensional forms on a two dimensional surface such as a canvas (It shows the illusion mass and volume through the technique of chiaroscuro).

Thomas Eakins

The Gross Clinic (1875)

Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii (1784)

Texture

John Constable

The Haywain (1821)

Theodore Gericault

Insane Woman (1822-1823)

Texture is the quality of a surface that light reveals.

• Actual texture• Represented texture

Joern UtzonSydney Opera House (1959-1972)