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Visual Elements In Angels Of Mercy

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Visual Elements in Angels Of Mercy The visual components of art are: color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value. Color is an element of art made by three properties: Hue, the name of color, Value, a hues lightness or darkness, and intensity, the quality of brightness and purity. Form is the element of art that is three dimensional and makes the picture leap off the page. Line is an element of art that is defined as a moving point, lines manage two or three dimensional, descriptive, implied or abstract shapes. Shape is the part of art that is two dimensional and limited by height and width. Space shows positive and negative areas that show the depth of art. Texture is how the art would feel if you could touch the object of the painting. And value is the darkness of colors. …show more content…

and Kathryn E. Price who recognised his talent and sent him to Ricks College and BYU. Angels of Mercy is one of Clark’s paintings ad is fairly well known. In this painting it shows a cowboy in the snow carrying a calf away from its dead mother back to this cowboy’s horse. Looking closer at this painting you can see that the temperature is below freezing, indicated by the horse’s breath and the snow on the ground. The eagle bill tapaderos hanging from the stirrups protect the cowboys boots from brush and keep the boots from wearing out. Also you can see that the horse’s reins are not tied and are hanging loosely in the snow indicating that the horse is well trained not to wonder off. The breast collar on the horse doesn't have a martingale going from the breast collar to the halter shows that this horse is well behaved. The lack of the horse’s halter shows that this horse was grabbed in a hurry, maybe because of a recent storm and to prove the fact is the snow on the

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