Elements+of+Design+Journal

Element of Design: Line Artist: Jorg Sasse Title: 2637 Date: 2000 www.guggemheim.org Tis photograph is made of entirely of lines. Everywhere your eyes looks there are lines that cross in front of and behind each other. These lines as a whole make an abstract design. When I look at this photograph, I think of construction because it looks like the inside of a building that isn't finished yet so there are boards and poles up everywhere for support. I also like how because of all of the lines there isn't just one spot that you look to in the picture; your eyes wander and look around so you can take in the whole picture.

Element of Design: Form Artist: Elad Lassry Title: Nailpolish Date: 2009 www.moma.com When I look at this picture, I see three-dimensional shapes, which is what the form of a photograph is about. The bottles of nail polish don't look flat, they look real because of form. There is a lot of geometric form in this photograph. The stands that the bottles of nail polish are on all have square or rectangular geometric form. This is realist form because the objects in the photograph are made life-like because of their form. The form in this photograph is created because of color, light, and line combined to made a three-dimensional effect.

Element of Design: Texture Artist: Aaron Siskind Title: Volcano 111 Date: 1980 www.moma.com I found this photograph to show texture as the element of design because it is life-like. It looks like cooled magma from a volcano. I think that it looks like I could reach out and feel it, the cracked, rough, cold, and hard magma, the actual texture of cooled magma. Aaron Siskind, the photographer stimulated this actual texture into the photograph, which is what gives it the life-like aspect, by using tactile texture. I believe texture is good when anyone who looks at a photograph feels like they could reach out and feel what is in that specific photograph.

Element of Design: Space Artist: Adam Bartos Title: West 80th Street, Playa del Rey Date: 1979 www.moma.com This photograph is an example of space because it contains the concepts of space. There is a foreground, a middle ground, and a background. There is a lot of negative space, the space between the main objects, the space between the cars and the building. I find that because of the element space, Adam Bartos has created an allusion of depth, the things that are larger appear closer and the ones that are smaller appear to be farther away. For example, the cars, which are lager, are closer than the mountains, which are smaller and in the distance.

Element of Design: Value Artist: Robert Mapplethorpe Title: Calla Lily Date: 1968 www.guggenheim.org I believe that this photograph is a good example of value as an element of design because it shows the contrast between light and dark. In the case of this specific photograph, there is a high contrast. It is in black and white scale so the blacks look very black and the whites look very white. The flower, shows the light value because it is a bright white in contrast to the darkness of the black it is surrounded by. I like how the background has a subtle change from light to dark; it goes from very black and gradually gets lighter to a dark gray and then to a light gray. I find the flower to stick out because it is so light in comparison to the dark background.

Element of Design: Color Artist: Gilbert & George Title: Dream Date: 1984 www.guggenheim.org I think this photograph shows a lot of color. It includes all three primary colors, red, yellow and blue, along with a secondary color, green. The white parts are where there is no color pigments and the black parts are where all the color pigments are combined. This is an example of a triadic harmony because the three primary colors used go together because they all have an equal distance from each other on the color wheel. I found this photograph to be interesting because in my opinion, it contains the most basic colors, the colors that everyone knows.

Element of Design: Shape Artist: William Chistenberry Title: Kudzu Devouring Building, near Greensboro, Alabama Date: 2004 www.moma.com When I look at this photograph, my eye is drawn to the building, covered with ivy, in the center. This building has a rectangular shape with rounded corners. It also has sections that are farther into it, which I think are either windows or doors. Overall, I find this building to have a unique shape created by basic shapes. This includes the geometric shape of a building combines with the natural shape of the ivy. I think it is the ivy that makes the building realistic.