Art Appreciation: Enjoying Paintings

A painting is someone talking to you in a language that uses, instead of words, the three basic elements of the line, shape, and color. Famous paintings illustrate what artists have sought to convey, and how they manipulated these three elements in order to do so. In traditional painting, power was inherent mostly in line and shape, with closely related colors. The most powerful element of expression in modern paintings is color. Line and shape are secondary. But every painting, old or new, is a way of seeing what the artist hopes to share., Explains, with a journey through the Chicago Art Institute, that painting is a visual language and explores the fundamental elements of painting. Uses superimposed lines and arrows to show how the painter utilizes the elements of line, shape, and color to make a statement. Compares how the modern and old masters differed in their treatment of line, shape, and color., Explores a large selection of traditional and modern paintings to see how line, shape and color are used to convey emotional content.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.