1. Line: the most basic building block of formal analysis. Can be used to create more complex shapes or lead your eye from one area in the composition to another. 2. Value: the degree of light or dark in a design. The contrast between black and white and all the tones in between. Values can be used with color and B&W. Contrast is the extreme changes between values. 3. Shape: Is created when lines are combined to form a specific shape. Shapes can be organic or geometric. 4. Form: A three dimensional shape with length, width and depth. 5. Space: The area between and around objects. Increasing or decreasing the amount of space around an object affects how we view that object. 6. Color: Differentiates and defines lines, shapes, forms and space. 7. Texture: The surface quality that can be seen and touched. Textures can be rough or smooth, soft or hard. Textures are often implied. 8. Balance: Is created when textures, colors, forms, or shapes are combined harmoniously. 9. Contrast: Is the use of elements of design that do not seem to go together to hold the viewers attention and to guide the viewers eyes through the artwork by creating visual tension. 10. Movement: Is the way viewers eye's is directed to move through a composition, often to areas of emphasis. Can be directed by lines, contrasting shapes, or colors within the artwork. 11. Emphasis: Is created in a work of art when the artist contrasts colors, textures, or shapes, to direct your viewing towards a particular part of the artwork. 12. Pattern: The repetition of shape, form or textures across a work of art. 13. Rhythm: The repetition of pattern to create the expectation that the pattern will continue. 14. Proportion and Scale: Is created when the sizes of elements in a work of art are combined harmoniously. Sometimes changes in scale- making large things small or small things large- can change our perception. 15. Unity or Harmony: Is created when the principles of analysis are present in a composition and harmony- Things go together. Some things have a complete sense of unity while some artists deliberately avoid formal unity to create feelings of anxiety and tension. Unity is the other end of the spectrum from contrast.
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