Composition

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This YouTube Channel offers a series of videos devoted to explain the main elements of the image and composition, such as colour, the line, the shape.

Good-bye Art Academy

This YouTube Channel includes different approachs to Art, from videos that analyze specific artistic movements to a playlist that includes brief definitions of popular art terms accompanied with visuals to help you better understand the terms.

Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. They offer the course “Art Appreciation” devoted to explore visual art forms and their cultural connections by learning about the the history of art and its principles. Includes in-depth studies of the elements, media, and methods used in creative thought and the creative process. This course includes specific lessons of the principles of visual language.

Introduction to Art written by Muffet Jones. (CC BY). From Boise State University.

This book does not only offer a brief review of art history and of different disciples, but also includes two chapters that identify and analyse the visual elements of design and the principles used to visually organize the elements of design.