Formal Elements of Art

The formal elements are the core of visual analysis and important vocabulary for an art student. This page appears under the The Comparative Study as well, when your students are analyzing an artwork in the CS they will need to refer specifically to the formal elements of each of the chosen artworks. See CS Assessment CriteriaWhen analyzing an artwork in any media we often begin with a formal analysis, that is a careful...


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