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Elements of Arts

The document outlines the essential elements of art, including line, form, color, space, and texture, each defined with specific characteristics. It also describes principles of art such as pattern, contrast, balance, emphasis, unity, proportion/scale, and rhythm/movement, highlighting their importance in visual design. Together, these elements and principles serve as foundational concepts for creating and analyzing artwork.

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Elements of Arts

The document outlines the essential elements of art, including line, form, color, space, and texture, each defined with specific characteristics. It also describes principles of art such as pattern, contrast, balance, emphasis, unity, proportion/scale, and rhythm/movement, highlighting their importance in visual design. Together, these elements and principles serve as foundational concepts for creating and analyzing artwork.

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ELEMENTS OF ARTS (LINE, FORM, COLOR, SPACE, TEXTURE)

LINE - the basic building block of a visual design.


HORIZONTAL LINE – is primarily the line of rest and quietness,
relaxation,
contemplation.
VERTICAL LINE – pointed, balanced, forceful and dynamic.
DIAGONAL LINE – the line of action. The degree of action is
shown in the angle of diagonal.

COMPOSITION WITH RED, YELLOW AND BLUE (1937 1942) Piet


Mondrian

CURVE LINE – show action and life and energy; they are never
harsh and stern.

JARAMA II, Frank Stella


FORM - relates closely to line in both definition and effect. Form
comprises the shape of an object within the composition, and shape
is often used as a synonym for form.

GEOMETRIC FORMS -are forms that are mathematical, precise and


can be named, as in the basic geometric forms: sphere, cube, pyramid,
cone, and cylinder.

ORGANIC FORMS -are those that are free flowing, curvy, sinewy,
and are not symmetrical or easily measurable or named

THE KISS LOVERS, Gustav Klimt

COLOR - constitutes an additional and very important aspect of the


composition of an artwork.

HUE -specific color. The traditional color spectrum consists of seven


basic hues (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo. and violet).

VALUE -sometimes called key, is the relationship of blacks to whites


and grays. Thus, value is understood simply as the lightness or darkness
of a color.

INTENSITY -sometimes called chroma or saturation, comprises the


degree of purity of a hue. It is understood as the brightness or dullness of
a color.

SPACE – an area where the other elements can interact. Two types:
positive and negative space. Double negative space refers to a blank
space used as negative space, example a field of color or pigment.

TEXTURE - the way something feels or the way it looks like it feels. It can
be used in paintings like impasto, stamping, and scratching in pottery,
embossing when making prints, and many other.
PRINCIPLE OF ARTS (PATTERN, CONTRAST, BALANCE, EMPHASIS,
UNITY, PROPORTION/ SCALE, RHYTHM/ MOVEMENT)

PATTERN - the essence of any design that is repeated: how the basic
elements in the picture repeat or alternate. The part that is repeated is
called a motif. Patterns can be regular or irregular.

CONTRAST - differences in a work of art, light and dark, rough and


smooth, curved line and straight

BALANCE – is the distribution of the visual weight of objects in a work of


art, color, size and texture. The concept of balance employs certain innate
judgements.

EMPHASIS – the main idea, the main focus and the thing your eyes see
first. It is referring to the focal point of a design and the order of
importance of each element within a design.

UNITY - there is unity if all the elements in a composition work together


toward meaning. The artists strive for a sense of self-contained
completeness in their artworks. Thus, an important characteristic in a
work of art constitutes the means by which unity is achieved.

PROPORTION/ SCALE – the size of something compared to what is next to


it. It is the visual size and weight of elements in a composition and how
they relate to each other.

RHYTHM/ MOVEMENT – visual elements in a work of art that create a


sense of action or implied motion. Movement is controlling the elements in
a composition so that the eye is led to move from one to the next and the
information is properly communicated to your audience.

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