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WINTER 2012 beg. Jan.9:

ARTS 1A W'12:

HUMI 16 W'12:


STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER
AT building, 3rd Floor
drop in & workshops

Welcome to DAC Library
Avoiding Plagiarism
Citing Sources


MORE USEFUL LINKS:
Artsopolis: Guide to local arts and culture events
LOCAL ART MUSEUMS
Euphrat DAC campus
De Young Museum, SF
Legion of Honor, SF
SFMOMA: Modern Art, SF
Asian Art, SF
Cantor Center, Stanford
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
MACLA, San Jose
Berkeley Art Museum
Oakland Museum
Triton Museum, S. Clara
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, SJ

MORE Museums for Class:
Arts 2A Ancient Mediterranean Art
Arts 3TD:American Art History

CRITICAL READING: A Guide by Prof. John Lye

ARTS 1A Fall 09

De Anza arches"




HUMANITIES 16 FALL 2010
ARTS 1A FALL 2010
ARTS 1A, W2011
HUMANITIES 16, W2011
FALL 2011:
"Humanities 16 Fall 2011. TABLE OF CONTENTS
(See required text)
FALL 2011:
"Humanities 16 Fall 2011. TABLE OF CONTENTS
(See required text)
"Arts 1A Fall 2011, TABLE OF CONTENTS

"Arts 1A Fall 2011, TABLE OF CONTENTS


Formal Elements & Principles of Design

FORMAL ELEMENTS: Building Blocks of a composition

LINE contour, outline, direction, movement, implied
SHAPE: flat or 2 dimensional
FORM: 3 dimensional or the illusion of 3D
VALUE or LIGHT lights and darks, shades of gray?
COLOR usually relative to what is around it
TEXTURE & PATTERN real or illusion
SPACE: Create the illusion of space on a flat picture plane with perspective:
-linear perspective (and foreshortening)
-atmospheric perspective
-isometric perspective
TIME & MOTION (ie kinetic sculpture)


PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN:
How are the Formal Elements arranged?

BALANCE
EMPHASIS & FOCAL POINT
SCALE & PROPORTION
REPETITION & RHYTHM
UNITY & VARIETY

 Updated Friday, February 5, 2010 at 11:37:30 PM by Elizabeth Bresnan - bresnanelizabeth@fhda.edu
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