Urban Animals - Art Gallery of Alberta

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The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program Elements and Principles of Design Tour SHAPE: When a line crosses itself or intersects with another line to enclose a space it creates a shape. Shape is two-dimensional. It has height and width but no depth. See: The Wolf and Oil, 2012 by Jason Carter What kind of shapes can you think of? Geometric: circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. We see them in architecture and manufactured items. Organic shapes: a leaf, seashell, flower. We see them in nature with characteristics that are freeflowing, informal and irregular. Static shapes: shapes that appear stable and resting. Dynamic shapes: Shapes that appear moving and active. What shapes do you see in this image? What shapes are positive and negative? The composition is primarily composed of ‘loose’ geometric shapes - squares/rectangles/ triangles. Even an organic form like the wolf is made up of angular segments. How do the shapes operate in this image? Shapes are repeated in the image. The repetition of the rectangular buildings with blue-square windows lead our eye back into space while the thin rectangular shapes in the background lead our eye across the picture plane. What quality do the shapes have? Does the quality of the shapes contribute to the meaning or story suggested in the work? Geometric shapes are those that are man-made in nature. The concentration or emphasis on these shapes center the scene in an urban environment and may give the work a ‘harsher’ or more oppresive feeling or mood than seen in other works in the exhibition. AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479 youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program Elements and Principles of Design Tour COLOUR: Colour comes from light that is reflected off objects. Colour has three main characteristics: Hue, or its name (red, blue, etc.) Value: (how light or dark the colour is) and Intensity (how bright or dull the colour is) See: The City Moose, 2012 by Jason Carter What are primary colours? Do you see any? Point to them in the drawing. What secondary colours do you see? Colour is made of primary colours, red, blue and yellow. Secondary colours are created from primary colours and include green, orange and purple. We see all primaries, red, yellow, blue and secondaries orange and green. Where is your eye directed to first? Why? Are there any colours that stand out more than others? Our attention is directed to the intense warm colour of the orange tower in the centre of the painting and then across the picture plane to each of the other orange towers. These towers are the most vivid in the work and, by being placed next to large areas of the complementary colour blue, are made to stand out. The red and yellow buildings also stand out because they are also warm colours and placed next to the complement of red which is green. What are complementary colours? How have they been used to draw attention? Complementary colours are those across from each other on the colour wheel and are placed next to each other to create the most contrast. The orange and other warm colours of the buildings (red, yellow) stand out against the cool colours (blue and green) and so direct the viewer’s eye. Contrasting colours are used to create a strong sense of deep space and emphasis in the work. AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479 youraga.ca
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