Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Balance
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is the encyclopedia entry for balance which covers symmetry and asymmetry, balance with color, and other types of balance.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Texture
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is the encyclopedia entry on texture and it covers types of texture, visual texture, and illusion of space.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Color
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is from the artist's encyclopedia entry for color and includes information on the color wheel, value, mood, natural...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Shape
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This activity is from the artist's encyclopedia entry for shape which includes information on geometric/organic shapes, variations...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Space
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This entry from the artist's encyclopedia on space includes information on types of space, real space, and perspective.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Repetition
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This instructional activity is on repetition using Carla Running Horse's "Star Pattern Quilt." The animation demonstrates the...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Balance
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on balance (symmetrical and asymmetrical) using "Wrist Guard" by Navajo. The animation shows the arrangement of the...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Geometric Organic Shape
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on geometric and organic shape using Senufo's "Granary Door." The animation shows the formation of the various...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Tints and Shades
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on tints and shades and the work studied is from Frank Stella. The animation demonstrates the difference and...
McGraw Hill
My Art Studio: Elements of Art: Composition: Rhythm
Interactive activity explaining the principle of rhythm as it applies to visual art.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Harmony
This site from Artlex provides a brief but effective definition of the Principle of Design known as Harmony. There are links to other terms within the definition as well as quotations by Cezanne, Seurat and Ingres.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Unity
This site from Artlex provides a brief but effective definition of the Principle of Design known as Unity. There are links to other terms within the definition.
ArtLex
Art Lex: V Page
A brief but effective definition of the Principle of Design known as Variety. There are links to other terms within the definition as well as quotations useful to the topic.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Monet's Garden by the Sea
A great lesson plan using oil pastels where the student looks at Monet's "Garden at Saint-Adresse," and then creates their own composition focusing on foreground, middleground and background.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Line
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is from the artist's toolkit encyclopedia and includes information on types of lines, edge and outline, expressive line,...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Rhythm
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This encyclopedia entry on rhythm and movement covers rhythm and repetition, alternating rhythm, and rhythm and movement.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Complementary Colors
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This instructional activity is complementary colors and the artwork studied is Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Seated Woman." The...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Primary and Secondary
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on the color wheel and it studies both primary and secondary colors using Grace Hartigan's "Billboard." The...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Warm and Cool Colors
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on warm and cool colors and works are studied from both Van Gogh and Joan Mitchell. The animation shows the...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Edge and Outline
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson plan is on edge and outline and the artwork studied is Fernand Leger's Divers on a Black Background. The animation...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Linear Perspective
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on linear perspective and it explores this a work by Camille Pissarro. The animation shows vanishing point, linear...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Positive and Negative Space
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on positive and negative space, and the artwork studied is from Katharina Fritsch.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Line
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on types of lines and the artwork studied is Franz Marc's Tiger. The animation shows the arrangement of the lines.
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