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The document discusses the elements of visual arts including line, value, light and shadow, color, texture, volume, and space. It defines each element and provides examples to illustrate concepts like types of lines, primary colors, color theory, and how perspective works in two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork. These elements are the basic building blocks that artists use to create and manipulate in their works.

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Visual Arts Elements)

The document discusses the elements of visual arts including line, value, light and shadow, color, texture, volume, and space. It defines each element and provides examples to illustrate concepts like types of lines, primary colors, color theory, and how perspective works in two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork. These elements are the basic building blocks that artists use to create and manipulate in their works.

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* VISUAL ARTS

MEDIUM AND ELEMENTS

− Medium and elements are together the materials the artist uses in creating a work of art.
− The element can be known only in some medium, but as an element it is independent of
medium.

ELEMENTS OF VISUAL ARTS


1. Line
2. Value (light and dark)
3. Light and shadow
4. Color
5. Texture
6. Volume
7. Space (including perspective)

• LINE – the simplest, most primitive, and most universal means for creating visual art.
- often lines are felt and not seen, as when an object or a person points to something we
do not see.
• Straight Lines
• Horizontal Line – line of non-action, rest, tranquility, quiet, relaxation and
contemporary
• Vertical Line – line of rest; pointed, balanced, forceful and dynamic
• Diagonal Line – line of action for almost everything in action assumes a diagonal
line
• Curved Lines – show action, life and eneergy; maybe single or double, slow or quick

• VALUE – has to do with the amount of light in a given painting or graphic work of art.
- relative degrees of light; indicates the degree of luminosity – the presence or absence
of light

• LIGHT AND SHADOW (chiaroscuro) – light and shadow in painting or light and shade
- a means oof modeling a figure in-depth, a means of articulating the form
- in painting, the effect of light and shadow must be simulated, but in 3D arts, shadows
occurs naturally under almost all light conditions.

• COLOR – all the effects obtained through line and value alone may be increased by the use of
color.
− colors may be warm or cold, advancing or retreating, light or heavy, attractive or
repulsive, in tension or in suspension
• Hue – the quality by which we distinguish one color from another
• Primary hues are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of
colors (for human applications)
• RGB – Red, Green, Blue (source color is light)
• Red + Green = Yellow
• Green + Blue = Cyan
• Red + Blue = Violet
• Red + Green + Blue = Light / White
• CMYK – Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (or Black)
• Cyan + Magenta = Blue
• Cyan + Yellow = Green
• Magenta + Yellow = Red
• Cyan + Magenta + Yellow = Black
• Traditional Primary Hues = Red, Yellow, Blue
• Complementary Colors – pairs of colors that are of “opposite” or “contrast” to
intensify one another.

• TEXTURE – has to do with the perception of touch


- the element that appeals to our sense of feeling thing – rough or smooth, bumpy or
slippery, etc.
- textures are primarily due to the differences in medium

• VOLUME – called “solidity”; the quality of an object which enables us to know that it has the
thickness as well as length and breadth
- perceive in two ways: by contour lights and by surface lights and shadows

• SPACE – architecture is primarily an art of space. The other arts exist in space; architecture
uses space as one of its elements.
• Perspective – Linear Perspective – has to do with the directions of lines and the size of
the objects
- Aerial Perspective – suggests that there is a distance from one point to
another

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