Changes

The execution and design of a painting can be subdivided as:

The execution and design of a painting can be subdivided as:

*Formal Elements:  

*Formal Elements:  

**Colour

**Colour - Color is more than a filling in of space, as it may have a structural role to play in the composition. The painter may use it to connect areas of the painting through similarity or create contrast by difference. It can also create spatial depth, harmony and mood.

**Space

**Space - Painters describe different kinds of space, such as primitive ("flat") space; illusionistic, ("Renaissance") space; modern space (developed from [[Paul Cezanne|Cezanne's]] union of flat and illusionistic space); and all-over space, such as that used by [[Jackson Pollock]] in his drip paintings. There is also "positive" space (occupied by a form or figure) and "negative" space (loosely, the background).

**Composition.

**Composition - When deciding the composition of the painting, the painter will be influenced by the subject (eg landscape, portrait, still life) and then how the forms within the subject relate to the borders of the painting. How the viewer's eye is meant to be drawn over the whole and to certain areas will also determine the composition.

*Pictorial Elements:  

*Pictorial Elements:  

**Line

**Line