ELEMENTS OF ARTS

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Kandinsky was a Russian painter, researcher and art theorist. He worked in France and Germany and taught at the Bauhaus school.

In 1911, together with other Expressionist painters, Kandinsky founded the Blue Rider. This group wanted to use colours to express ideas and feelings, rather than reflect reality. Kandinsky’s Expressionist works feature dynamic compositions, expressive line and a strong, aggressive use of colour. Kandinsky was the originator of abstract art. This style features the same use of line and colour and the aim of expressing feelings, but without being figurative.

Wassily Kandinsky, Yellow, Red and Blue, 1912.

LEARN TO ANALYSE ART

Brief description of the work

This is an abstract painting made using bright colours. Point, line, plane and colour were used as elements of thecomposition, as there is no subject.

Art analysis

– The work does not refer to any realistic or figurative element, making it abstract art.

– The art elements have been positioned in two separate areas:

	Left side	Right side
Point	Point is used in various areas.
Line	The horizontal segments give the sensation of calm and the vertical ones seem to separate. Some diagonals and curves express movement.	There is more use of irregular curved elements, generating more movement.
Plane	Rectangular planes are superimposed, creating the sensation of depth.	The shapes are combined and superimposed, giving the sensation of depth. The planes formed by the blocks of colour were executed using    strong perspective.
Colour	In the centre, warm hues seem to advance towards the viewer; the cool hues in the    background seem to move away	The centre is dominated by a strong harmony between complementary colours (blue and red).

Briefly describe the work.

– What elements are depicted? Are they natural or manmade? Is this one of Kandinsky’s Expressionist or abstract works? Why?

Do an art analysis.

– Are the shapes realistic, figurative or abstract? Does the work depict reality or a feeling? hich one?

– Explain how the paint was applied: in patches, points, lines, etc.

– What sensations do the colours convey?

– Is there a sensation of depth? How was it created?

Do your own analysys

Briefly describe the work.

– What elements are depicted? Are they natural or manmade?

Is this one of Kandinsky’s Expressionist or abstract works? Why?

Do an art analysis.

– Are the shapes realistic, figurative or abstract? Does the work depict reality or a feeling? Which one?

– Explain how the paint was applied: in patches, points, lines, etc.

– What sensations do the colours convey?

– Is there a sensation of depth? How was it created?

(Actividad del Libro Art Apreciation - Visual Arts, de SM / Dayton University)

Recursos en la red...

A continuación tenéis enlaces relacionados con nuestra materia, son aplicaciones y herramientas útiles "on line ", para trabajar conectados, la mayoría sin tener que descargar ningún programa...

- Practica el dibujo técnico con.../ Practice technical drawing with

SKETCHUP /UP,



- Para crear textura visuales parecidas a llamas / to create flame-like textures :

FLAME





- Herramientas de dibujo / drawing and sketching tools:

SCRIBBLER TOO, ( tutorial ),

Scribbler Too es otra de las herramientas de dibujo que enganchan. Parecen dibujos de la web, fáciles de crear, con múltiples opciones y posibilidades de modificación,. Aprender con herramientas como ésta es tan sencillo que, una vez que lo dominas, crear obras de arte también es sencillo.

Scribbler Too is another greatly engaging sketching tool. Its web-like drawings are easy to create. Many color options are available for you to modify. Learning the tools is quite easy and once you have learned them, creating masterpieces is quite easy too.


FLASH PAINT,

Flash Paint es una web repleta de herramientas de dibujo con muchas posibilidades. Lo que más me gusta es que tiene la posibilidad de crear complejos y sencillos dibujos geométricos, conseguidos a través de la combinación de lineas, rectas y curvas que puedes modificar fácilmente.

Flash Paint is a full web based drawing tool with many drawing features. The feature I liked best was its ability to create complex geometrical drawings with ease. This was achieved through a combination of lines and curves which you can modify easily.

SKETCH PAD





SketchPad es una simple herramienta de dibujo, con fantásticos colores, fondos y pinceles..

SketchPad is a simple sketching tool with wonderful colors of canvas and brushes. The results you get are quite interesting because of the amazing color combinations.

DOINK





Doink es otra web donde conseguir desde lo más fácil a los más complejos dibujos geométricos a través de lineas rectas o curvas. Es además divertido y rápido.

Doink is another site which I thought made it a lot easier to create complex geometrical drawings through straight lines and curves. Apart from that, basic tools on the site make sketching fun and quick.

MY OATS





My Oats es una página web sorprendente para crear dibujos circulares simétricos.

My Oats This is an absolutely amazing website to create symmetrical circular drawings. You will get the hang of the available tools and mouse gestures rather quickly and easily create wonderful drawings.

- Animaciones con / Animations

PIVOT

Build your own figures or objects and load your own backgrounds.

GO ANIMATE

Make animated videos online for your business with GoAnimate. Create animated marketing videos, sales videos, explainer videos, training videos and ...

MAKE WEB VIDEO





VISME

VISME . Creación online de fáciles presentaciones, animaciones, anuncios y banners, infografías, etc..

VISME :Easily Create online Presentations, animations, animated HTML5 banners, infographics and other rich visual content free in your browser.

POWTOON

PowToon es una compañía de servicios en la nube que permite crear presentaciones animadas y videos explicativos animados. Srperendentes videos y presentaciones. Diseños gratuitos explicados. hazlo anímado!!

PowToon Amazing videos and presentations created with PowToon! Explainer Videos; Use ... PowToon - The free animated explainer design software. make animated ...

SCRATCH

Scratch es un lenguaje de programación en comunidad online donde puedes crear tu propia historia interactiva, juegos y animaciones.

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.




STICKMAN

Dibuja un personaje sencillo y observa como toma vida y se convierte en una aventura interactiva.

Draw a custom stickman and watch him come to life in this interactive stickman adventure.

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX

MakeBeliefsComix.com es un creador de tiras cómicas de Bill Zimmermann. Crea, imprime, envia y comparte tusa tiras cómicas.
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COLOR. METHOD.AC


WRITE COMICS

Write Comics is a free, simple tool for creating comic strips. Write Comics doesn't require any registration to use. In fact, registration is not even an option. To create a comic on Write Comics just select a background from the menu, choose some characters, and add some speech bubbles. You can continue adding frames until you've completed your story. Write Comics is quite easy to use, but there is one short-coming and that is the only way you can save your work is to save it to your local hard drive.




FINN online comic creator


BE FUNKY

Be Funky es una herramoenta sencilla para convertir fotografias digitales en comics digitales. La imagen que vez se transforma en cómic.

Be Funky a simple tool for turning digital photographs into digital comics. The image you see to the left is a cartoonized image of me based on a photograph I took with my webcam. Be Funky can be used for simple one frame images or be used to create an entire strip of cartoonized images with inserted text.

STRIP GENERATOR

Strip Generator allows anyone, even people who claim they can't draw, to create a good-looking black and white comic strip. To create a comic strip all you need to do is select the number of frames you want then drag characters and objects into those frames. The menus for characters and objects are fairly extensive. Once you've selected a character or object you can adjust the size to fit your scene. Adding text is a simple matter of selecting a speech bubble and typing text. When you're happy with your comic strip you can save it online, print it, or embed it into your blog.

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ELEMENTS OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Kandinsky was a Russian painter, researcher and art theorist. He worked in France and Germany and taught at the Bauhaus school.

In 1911, together with other Expressionist painters, Kandinsky founded the Blue Rider. This group wanted to use colours to express ideas and feelings, rather than reflect reality. Kandinsky’s Expressionist works feature dynamic compositions, expressive line and a strong, aggressive use of colour. Kandinsky was the originator of abstract art. This style features the same use of line and colour and the aim of expressing feelings, but without being figurative.

Wassily Kandinsky, Yellow, Red and Blue, 1912.

LEARN TO ANALYSE ART

Brief description of the work

This is an abstract painting made using bright colours. Point, line, plane and colour were used as elements of thecomposition, as there is no subject.

Art analysis

– The work does not refer to any realistic or figurative element, making it abstract art.

– The art elements have been positioned in two separate areas:

	Left side	Right side
Point	Point is used in various areas.
Line	The horizontal segments give the sensation of calm and the vertical ones seem to separate. Some diagonals and curves express movement.	There is more use of irregular curved elements, generating more movement.
Plane	Rectangular planes are superimposed, creating the sensation of depth.	The shapes are combined and superimposed, giving the sensation of depth. The planes formed by the blocks of colour were executed using strong perspective.
Colour	In the centre, warm hues seem to advance towards the viewer; the cool hues in the background seem to move away	The centre is dominated by a strong harmony between complementary colours (blue and red).

Briefly describe the work.

– What elements are depicted? Are they natural or manmade? Is this one of Kandinsky’s Expressionist or abstract works? Why?

Do an art analysis.

– Are the shapes realistic, figurative or abstract? Does the work depict reality or a feeling? hich one?

– Explain how the paint was applied: in patches, points, lines, etc.

– What sensations do the colours convey?

– Is there a sensation of depth? How was it created?

Do your own analysys

Briefly describe the work.

– What elements are depicted? Are they natural or manmade?

Is this one of Kandinsky’s Expressionist or abstract works? Why?

Do an art analysis.

– Are the shapes realistic, figurative or abstract? Does the work depict reality or a feeling? Which one?

– Explain how the paint was applied: in patches, points, lines, etc.

– What sensations do the colours convey?

– Is there a sensation of depth? How was it created?

(Actividad del Libro Art Apreciation - Visual Arts, de SM / Dayton University)

FORMATS OF COMICS

Comics come in several different formats, such as:

Comic strips. These are short, usually humorous comics that appear in newspapers and magazines. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Popular comic strips include Garfield, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and others.

Comic books. These comics are printed in books the size of a small magazine. Many comic books are of the superhero genre, featuring the adventures of costumed heroes like Batman or Captain America, though other genres exist as well.

Graphic novels. These are comics printed in books with many more pages than a magazine-style comic. They often tell a complete story, and come in many genres, from romance to comedy to drama. Some well-known graphic novels are Maus and Persepolis.

Webcomics. These are comics originally published on the internet. They come in nearly every length and genre imaginable. Penny Arcade, PVP, and Achewood are popular webcomics.

Manga. These are comics from Japan, where they are published in thick magazines that contain stories from many different artists. They come in many different genres, such as action, romance, comedy, drama, and so on. Titles like Naruto, Fruits Basket, and Love Hina are very popular.

Trade paperbacks. When an American comic book or Japanese manga series is very popular, it will sometimes be collected in a volume containing several chapters of the story.

COMIC EXERCISES

1. Now, let ´s go to do a Comic matching activity :      http://NeoK12.com/quiz/89GF9368


    2. We are going to create our comic with a generator program.

http://es.searchgames.org/juegos/play/generador-de-comics

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/index.html

http://www.bitstrips.com/

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT COLOURS?

Warm up activities....

1. Match the following sentences:

1. Blue is a…	a. emotions.
2. Red is a…	b. warm colour.
3. Colour schemes express…	c. use black and white in different proportions
4. Achromatic schemes…	d. harmonising.
5. Polychrome images…	e. have a single colour.
6. Monochrome images…	f. use neighbouring colours in the colour wheel.
7.Combining colours is called colors…	g. have two or more colours.
8. Related colour harmonies…	h. cold colour.

2. Work in pairs. Discuss these questions with your partner.

• What is related color harmony? What is complementary colour harmony?
• What is harmony of greys? Is it a warm range or a cold one?
• Explain:
  • monochrome images
  • polychrome images
  • achromatic scheme
  • Hue
  • Value
  • Saturation

3. True or false? Correct the false sentences.

1. Colours have five characteristics.
2. Hue, tone and tint refer to the name of the color.
3. Value is the luminosity of a colour.
4. Value represents the amount of water in a color.
5. A tone with a lot of white, has a low value.
6. A tone with a lot of black, has a low value.
7. Only primary colours are pure colours.
8. We always perceive colors in the same way.

                                             COLOURS

Primary and secondary colours 

Colour is an element of visual language has been studied throughout history to produce a series of

basic colours that mix in different quantities, and by adding white or black, can imitate with some

perfection the colours that we see in reality.

Primary colours

The three basic colours cannot be obtained by mixing any other colour. They are called primary

colours and are: yellow, cyan and magenta.

Secondary colours

If we mix two primary colours we obtain secondary, or binary, colours. They are: red, green, and violet.

Subtractive colour mixing

When we mix all the primary colours we produce a visual sensation close to black. This is called

subtractive colour mixing, because it implies that each added colour subtracts luminosity from the

whole.

The colour wheel and complementary colours

The colour wheel is a framework used for sorting primary and secondary colours, facilitating their

visual understanding. Contrasting colours in the colour wheel are called complementary colours.

A colour is complementary to another when it does not contain any amount of the opposite

colour. For example, yellow is complementary to violet because it contains no blue or magenta,

which are the colours that make up violet.

Characteristics of colours

Colours are defined according to three characteristics: hue, value and saturation.

• Hue

The tone, hue, or tint is the specific name given to each colour. It is the characteristic used to

identify the colour, regardless of its composition.

• Value

The value or luminosity of a colour represents its grade of clarity or darkness. Clarity is

obtained by adding white to a tone and darkness by adding black. When a tone has a lot of white,

it has a high value. If it has a lot of black, it has a low value.

• Saturation

Saturation refers to the grade of purity, vivacity or intensity of a colour. Primary and secondary

colours are pure colours, they have a maximum grade of saturation.

Both in nature and in graphic reproductions colours rarely appear with their maximum grade

of saturation. Normally they are complex mixes of colours with their respective complementary

colours.

The more complementary colour in the mix, the less saturation the original colour will have.

Perception of colour

Our sight can perceive the same colour in a different way depending on lighting, the space it

occupies or the colours that surround it. 

The Colour range

A colour range orders colours according to their value, saturation or the position of their tones in

the colour wheel.

• Cold range: Tones that go from green to purple. Blue is the coldest colour.

• Warm range: Tones that go from magenta to greenish yellow. Red is the warmest colour.

Expressiveness of colour schemes

Cold colours are associated with calm, or seriousness and warm colours with joy, or aggressiveness.

Achromatic scheme

This range uses black and white, that, in different proportions, give different values of clarity and

darkness. This range is cold.

Polychrome and monochrome

Polychromatic images have two or more colours, with different values and saturation.

Monochrome images have a single colour and different values.

Colour harmonies

Combining colours is called harmonising. We harmonise related colours, complementary colours and colours with black and white, creating greys.

Related colour harmonies

Using neighbouring colours in the colour wheel creates a harmony of related colour.

Contrasting colour harmonies

To separate forms, we use colours that contrast in the colour wheel. For example, magenta and green. This creates a harmonious contrast.

Harmony of greys

By mixing colours with black and white, we obtain a harmony of greys. Similar colours produce a harmony of similar greys.

Complementary colours, produce a harmony of complementary greys.

http://www.slideshare.net/darakeyla/cool-and-warm-colors

Try this link, there you´d find  more information about colours... 

Colours (Lasláminas.com) and Glossary and quick guide
Cool and warm colours

And a web page  Color in motion

Exercises

True or false? Correct the false sentences.

1. Colours have five characteristics.

2. Hue, tone and tint refer to the name of the colour.

3. Value is the luminosity of a colour.

4. Value represents the amount of water in a colour.

5. A tone with a lot of white, has a low value.

6. A tone with a lot of black, has a low value.

7. Only primary colours are pure colours.

8. We always perceive colours in the same way.

Complete the spaces.

1. Colour is an element of … language.                       a) visual         b) oral

2. There are … primary colours.                                  a) two             b) three

3. Primary colours are … by mixing other colours.     a) obtained     b) not obtained

4. Red, green and violet are … colours.                       a) secondary   b) primary

5. Mixing all the primary colours produces…             a) near white.  b) near black.

6. Subtractive colour mixing implies that
 each added colour…   luminosity.                               a) adds luminosity. b) subtracts

                                                                                                      

7. The colour wheel helps us to sort … colours.          a) primary   b) primary and secondary

8. Yellow is complementary to violet because
 it ….colours that form violet.                                      a) contains       b) doesn’t contain

                                                                                                   

Work in pairs. Discuss these questions with your partner.

- Look at the following images, which feelings do 

they transmit to you?

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