Elements and Principles

Question 1

Kazimir Malevich
Suprematist Composition, 1916

Question 2

What are the elements and principles?

Answer 2

Elements are colour and shape

Principle are balance

Question 3

Describe the use of shape.

Answer 3

Limited use of geometric shapes. Helps to suggest that there is no rules of gravity with the composition positioned the way it is.

Question 4

Describe the use of colour.

Answer 4

Bold and high contrasting colours create a liveliness mood

Minimal colour scheme helps to reflect the suprematism movement

Question 5

Describe the use of balance.

Answer 5

Stability and harmony in the abstract painting as created by the balance between the geometric figures.

Question 6

Kngwarreye (no context) - what are elemetns and principles.

Answer 6

Colour and texture are the elemtns

Tyhe principle used is the pattern’/repetitoion

Question 7

Describe the use of colour.

Answer 7

Beauty of the Australian desert landscape is reflected through a variety of bold and brilliant hues. They therefore, help to illustrate the Australian outback

Question 8

Describe the use of texture.

Answer 8

Layers of paint vary between thick and light in order to convey the level of texture.

An organic texture is illusrated through the use of the intervoweven lines.

Question 9

Describe the use of patter/repetition

Answer 9

Through the particulary linera lines the pathway is created.

Question 10

Context of expansion of light (date and the artist)
Gino Severini
1912- elemetns and principles.

Answer 10

Elements used are texture and colour.

Question 11

Describe the use of colour.

Answer 11

Vibrant and contrasting colours are used to convey an abstract representation of light expanding .

Bright, intense warm colours luminate from the middle of the canvas expanding to the edges, where the colours cool

Question 12

Describe the use of texture.

Answer 12

Sense of texture and eneergy are created and reflective of the of the style known as pointillism

This also helps to add depth and tacticle (touchable) qualities

Question 13

Lisa Roet Chimpanzee Fist No. 2, charcoal on silk paper, 2004 - elements and principles

Answer 13

Form and texture are elemetns created by the use of line (another elme0

Question 14

Describe this.

Answer 14

She has used the ‘cross hatching’ technique to indicate the impression of fur on the chimpanzee’s hand.

She has used more lines to create darker tones to indicate shadows, and less lines to indicate highlights.

This adds a sense of three-dimensional form to the hand.

Question 15

David Hockney A Bigger Splash, 1967 - what are the principles used.

Answer 15

Space and focal point have been used

Question 16

Describe the use of space.

Answer 16

A swimming pool in the foreground and moderisnt building in the background.

This potray helps to create a sense of space and depth

This hellpst o make the pool the focal point.

Question 17

Describe the use of the focal point.

Answer 17

The splash draws teh viewers eye.

It is emphasised in signifcance because the building is still.

Question 18

Homeless picture - what are the elements and principles used.

Answer 18

Focal point as a priniciple and contrast, line as an elemetn

Question 19

Describe the use of lines.

Answer 19

Structured geometric lines to represent the city buildings.

Rough uneven lines to create a textured surface to indicate ’sleeping rough’

Organic lines contrast with geometric lines to the background to make the figure stand out.

Question 20

Describe the use of contrast and the focal point.

Answer 20

High contrast to make teh face the focla point

The church is a focal point to as it contrasts as a black compositional figure