Formal Elements of Art Posters

Each poster includes:

• the formal element named

• a high-resolution photograph of a famous artwork (most of them taken by us on-site in museums around the world)

• textual descriptors for students to learn how to describe each formal element

The PDF file is for 18x24" format (this is a larger poster size)

These are excellent posters for classroom decor!

Includes artists and artworks like:

• The Buddha’s Enlightenment, Ancient Gandhara (modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan

• Fra Angelico, Annunciation

• Lady with a Unicorn, c. 15th century

• Katsushika Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa"

• Bodhisattva Maitreya, Ancient Gandhara

• Khatchkar, 13th–16th century

• Frida Kahlo, Viva la Vida, 1954, oil. Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City.

• Wayne Thiebaud, Three Machines

• Fish figurine, c. 1200–900 BCE

• Guang vessel, Shang dynasty (11th century BCE)

• Jan van Eyck, Annunciation

• Dog, Colima culture, West Mexico

• Yayoi Kusama, Where the Universe and Human Life Are

• Lord 8 Deer in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall

• Paul Signac, Entry to the Port of Rochelle

• Han Gan, Night-Shining White

• Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night Over the Rhône

• Francisco de Zurbarán, The Flight into Egypt

• Vincent van Gogh, Roses

• Pyxis of al-Mughira, 968 CE

• Bowl with Profile Bird, Wari

• Gong Xian, Landscape with Poem

• Lady K’abal Xook, Ancient Maya

• Beth Van Hoesen, Bugs

• Raphael Sanzio, Lady with a Unicorn

• Domenico Veneziano, Saint Lucy Altarpiece

• Katsushika Hokusai, “Ejiri in Suruga Province"