Visual Elements

Form – Volume & Mass

Line & Plane

Space

Texture

Light

Color

Time

Visual Element Types of Form – volume and mass

Collateral 1991

Condensation Cube 1965-2008

Hans Haacke

Visual Elements Types of Form Organic, Geometric and Mechanical

Camille Claudel The Waltz 1892-1905 bronze 10”h

Anish Kapoor White Dark III

1995

Tony Cragg Minster

1987

Visual Element Types of Form – Static, Dynamic and Kinetic

Sobodh Gupta Mind shut down 2008

Sarah Sze Triple Point

(Planetarium) 2013

Celeste Boursier-Mougenot Untitled Series #3 2001 MCASD

Visual Element Form and Function

Philippe Starck Juicy Salif 1990s

Quietrevolution Ltd QR5 Wind Turbine 2009

Visual Element Orthographic Projection

Visual Element Degrees of Dimensionality – Relief – Bas/Low, Mid, Three-Quarter and Freestanding Works

Visual Element Environmental Works - Installations

Tara Donovan Haze 2005 MCASD

Visual Element Environmental Works - Earthworks

Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty 1969-1970 Great Salt Lake, Utah

Andy Goldsworthy Spire 2008

Presido Park, San Francisco

Visual Element Environmental Works - Site-Specific The Christos

Valley Curtain 1970-1972 Colorado

Visual Element Line Quality - Orientation

Ant Farm Cadillac Ranch 1974

Sol LeWitt Wall-Floor Piece #4

1976

Visual Element Line Quality - Direction

Jonathon Borofsky I Dreamed I Could Fly 2006 Toronto Pearson Airport

Charles Ray Oh Charley, Charley, Charley

1992

Visual Element Line Quality - Continuity

Chris Burden Metropolis II LACMA

Visual Element Actual Lines

Donald Judd Untitled (to you, Heiner, with admiration and affection) 1973 LACMA

Visual Element Implied Line

Meta Vaux Warwick Fuller Ethiopia Awakening 1914 plaster 5’6”h

Visual Element Line Networks

In Silence 2012

His Chair 2006

Chiharu Shiota

Visual Element Plane

Alexander Calder Big Red 1959

Naum Gabo Constructed Head No. 2

1916

Maya Lin Atlas Landscape 2006

and Bodies of Water –

Red Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea 2006

Visual Element Volume

Do Ho Suh Cause & Effect

Individual pieces 5.5x 3”

Visual Element Mass

Henry Moore Reclining figure

1957-1958 UNESCO Headquarters, Paris

157.4”x196.85”x112.2” (400 x 500 x 285cm )

Visual Element Space – Positive and Negative

David Smith Cubi XXVIII 1965

Isamu Noguchi Black Sun 1969

Volunteer Park

Visual Element Compression and Expansion

Richard Serra

Betwixt the Torus & Sphere 21st C

Torques Ellipses 1999 Guggenheim Bilbao

Visual Element Activated Space

Anish Kapoor Cloud Gate

2004-2006 Chicago Millennium Park

Ryoan-ji rock garden Kyoto, Japan

Visual Element Entering Space

Yayoi Kusama Fireflies on the Water 2002 Broad Museum

Visual Element Degrees of Texture

Anish Kapoor The Chant of Blue 1983 (l) and

To Reflect an Intimate Part of the Red 1981 (top & r)

Visual Element Characteristic and Contradictory Textures

Meret Oppenheim Object(Luncheon in Fur) 1936

Visual Element The Implications of Texture

Duane Hanson Self-Portrait with Model 1979

Visual Element Striking a Surface

James Turrell Milk Run II

1997 Wedgeworks series MCASD

Robert Irwin Disc piece

1960s MCASD

Visual Element Ambient and Directed Light

Breathing Light 2013 LACMA

Juke Green 1968

James Turrell

Visual Element Light as Sculpture

Bruce Nauman Having Fun - Good Life, Symptoms 1985

Visual Element Color - Degrees of Harmony Triadic (l) and Analogous (r)

Janet Echelman Her Secret Is Patience

2009 Phoenix Civic Space Park

Felix Gonzalez-Torres Portrait of Ross in LA 1990

Visual Element Color - Contrast

Kurt Perschke Red Ball 2002

Gothic Square, Chicago

Sandy Skoglund Revenge of the Goldfish

1981

Andy Goldsworthy Red River Powder 1990s

Visual Element Color and Emotion

Sandy Skoglund Radioactive Cats 1980

George Segal The Diner 1964-1966

Visual Element Symbolic Color

El Anatsui Bleeding Takari Shirt II 2007

Visual Element Time – Actual

Jaume Plensa Crown Fountain 2004 Chicago Millennium Park

Visual Element Implied Time

Ernst Barlach The Avenger

1914 Bronze