FEBRUARY 2021
Elements of Art as your raw materials, and the Principles of Art
are how you mold and shape them. It is where the style of an
artist manipulates the substances he or she choose to use.
COLOR
• Property of light
• Gives life to an artwork
• Expresses emotion
André Derain, Charing Cross Bridge, 1906
Hue – the color itself
Value – relative lightness or darkness of
a color
Intensity – intensity of a color, often
measured by boldness or dullness;
thickness or brightness of the color;
emotion expressed
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The source of all colors
Colors can be
classified through:
o How they are
produced;
▪ Primary Colors
▪ Secondary Colors
▪ Intermediate Colors
o Their position in color
wheel;
▪ Adjacent Colors
▪ Analogous Colors
▪ Complementary
colors
▪ Split-complementary
▪ Triadic Colors
The source of all colors
o Effect on their visual
sense;
▪ Warm Color
▪ Cool Colors
o According to their
value;
▪ Light
▪ Dark
Monochromatic -
containing or using
only one color of a
single wavelength or
frequency
TYPES OF LINE
❖ CONTOUR LINES - Contour lines form the
• A point moving at an identifiable outside edge of a three-dimensional
shape and clearly defines the area it
path – length and direction
occupies.
• Has a variation of shape and ❖ GESTURE LINES - are lines that show
thickness movement, particularly of characters in
an artwork.
• The path of the dot, point, etc.
Through space and that is ❖ IMPLIED LINES - Implied lines are not made
always has more length than by a physical mark in an artwork, but
rather by visual suggestion. Our eyes often
thickness follow them automatically, so they draw
• Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, attention to specific parts of an artwork.
crooked, curved ❖ EXPRESSIVE LINES - Lines that show feeling
and emotion
Contour – an outline of a curving or irregular figure
➢ Related to each other for they define the space occcupied by the object
• Shape – 2 dimensions: height and width
-- irregular or uneven and more found in nature
-- an enclosed area of space created through lines or other elements of the
composition.
2 TYPES OF SHAPE:
1. Geometric Shapes
- are precise areas that can be made using a ruler or compass. These shapes
can be simple or complex and generally give an artwork a sense of order.
- find their origin in mathematical proportions
- precise and more often found in man-made things
2. Organic/ Free Form Shapes
- complex and imprecise. They give works of art a natural feeling.
- readily occurring in nature, often irregular and asymmetrical
• Form – 3 dimentions: height, width, depth
-- visual appearance or configuration of an object
-- can be well-defined, such as a cube, or they can be free-form,
such as an animal. They can be created by combining two or more
shapes and are often defined by the presence of shadow and how
light plays against it in an artwork.
❑ concerned with
how an artwork
depicts depth.
❑ It is how artists
make a two-
dimensional
surface look three-
dimensional.
❑ Space can give
the illusion of
objects in an
artwork being
close, far away, or
overlapping one
another.
Background - the ground or parts, as of a scene, situated in the
rear
the focal area of a painting and lies between
the foreground and background of a painting
the opposite of the background, which is the
part of a photograph, painting, or scene that's
nearest from the viewer
❖ Visual appearance of things - the
surface quality of the artwork
❖ Has to do with the perception of
touch/ sense of touch/ feeling
❖ Rough, smooth, slippery, bumpy
In the visual arts, composition is the placement or
arrangement of visual elements or 'ingredients' in a work
of art, as distinct from the subject. The organization of visual
elements in 2D art
Most essential
factor in a
composition.
Also called
UNITY.
Can be
achieved
when all the
elements of a
thing are put
together to
come
up with a
coherent
whole.
“physical equilibrium”, this is a
stability produced by even
distribution of weights on each
side of the thing
Taj Mahal, India 1632-1648
Two types: Formal or
SYMMETRICAL BALANCE and
Informal or ASYMMETRICAL or
OCCULT BALANCE.
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940
Woman Holding a Balance,1664 Christ on the Mount of Olives, 1889
Johannes Vermeer Paul Gauguin
Continuous use of a motif or repetitive
pattern of a succession of similar
identical items. This can be achieved
through: alternation, radiation,
progression, or parallelism.
Gloria Petyarre, Bush Medicine Dreaming, 2008
Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, 1942-43
Giving proper
importance on one
or more parts of the
thing or the whole
thing itself.
It is often the place a
viewer looks first.
Artists create
emphasis by
contrasting the
elements of art, such
as color or shape.
Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1814
This is the
comparative
relationship of
the different
parts in relation
to the whole
Artists can use
the scale and
proportion to
create
sensations such
as depth,
realism,
disorientation,
and drama.
Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
Gustave Caillebotte
