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The document outlines the elements of art, which include line, color, shape, form, value, space, and texture, and emphasizes their importance in creating and evaluating artworks. It discusses how each element contributes to the overall impact and emotional expression of art, providing examples from notable artists. The document serves as a guide for understanding and applying the principles of design in artistic practices.

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Week 3.1 Elements of Arts 1

The document outlines the elements of art, which include line, color, shape, form, value, space, and texture, and emphasizes their importance in creating and evaluating artworks. It discusses how each element contributes to the overall impact and emotional expression of art, providing examples from notable artists. The document serves as a guide for understanding and applying the principles of design in artistic practices.

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ELEMENTS OF ART,

ARTS AND
Member 1
PERFORMANCES
Elements of Art
Topic Objectives:

Define and identify principles of design; determine the


elements that comprise it.

Realize the importance of knowing the principle of


design when organizing artworks.
Evaluate/Create artworks applying the principles of
design.
What is an ART?
Art is a creative activity that expresses imaginative
or technical skill. Art is a diverse range of human
activities in creating visual, performing arts, artifacts,
and expressing the author's imaginative mind.
Elements of Art
The elements of art are the building blocks
used by artists to create a work of art.
Art has Seven Elements: Line, Color, Shape,
Form , Value, Space and Texture.
1. Line
Line are the foundation of drawing and are powerful tool
unto themselves.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF Lines mark range a
LINES: distance between two points and
✓ Continuous can be straight or curved. Lines do
✓ Broken not only need to be made with
✓ Vertical marks and outlines in visual art.
✓ Jaggged
✓ Horizontal They can also be implied or
abstract.
2. Color
With the three building blocks of colors-
hue, value and intensity- artists can tap
into a wide range of emotions. There is
nothing that changes in artwork’s
emotional impact more than color.
Van Gogh, Monet, and
Toulouse-Lautrec
→Van Gogh, Monet, and Toulouse-
Lautrec all expertly manipulated
color in their art provoking
different feelings. Color can be used
symbolically or to create a pattern.
It can be selected for contrast or
Van Gogh, Monet, and to set a specific mood.
Toulouse-Lautrec
Starry Night by Van Gogh
3. Shape
SHAPES - Two-dimensional, flat, flat and only
have height and width used to be output or closed lines

GEOMETRIC SHAPES- Are mathematical and


precise(circles and square); whereas organic shapes take
cues from nature and tend to be curved or abstract.
Henry Martisses &
Piet Mondrian
HENRY MARTISSES
collage art- makes great use of
organic shapes
PIET MONDRIAN
relying on geometric shapes in his
paintings.
Henry Martisses &
Piet Mondrian
COLLAGE ART GEOMETRIC SHAPES
4. Form
When a shape gains depth and becomes three dimensional, then it
takes a form
✓ Cylinders, pyramids, and spheres are some of the more
common forms, though they can also be without a clearly
defined shape of form.
✓ Form is the utmost importance in sculpture, though it can
easily introduced into drawing and painting using 3D art
technique.
Bernini
Bernini (Baroque sculptor)
a master of form, carving his
sculptures in a way that gave
enjoyment from any
perspective.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini


Frank Lloyd Wright Zaha Hadid Tadao Ando

London
FALLING Church of the
Aquatics
WATER Light
Centre
5.Value
The lightness and darkness of a color.
Lightest value- white• Value is so important that the Italians
Darkest value- black created a term ‘chiaroscuro’- an
✓ Defined as the effect of light modelling in painting,
contrast drawing, or printmaking, where three
✓ Affect and dimensional volume is suggested that
influence the mood
of an artwork.
specifically refers to the use of light
and dark in a piece of art.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Caravaggio (Baroque Painter)
master of using
chiaroscuro in his moody oil
paintings.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Boy Peeling Fruit


6. Space
SPACE can be manipulated based on how an artist places lines,
shapes, forms and color. It is created when placed with other
elements. It can be either positive or negative.

POSITIVE SPACE: NEGATIVE SPACE:


An area occupied by an An area that runs
object or form. between, through, around
or with objects.
PERSPECTIVE
The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional
surface so as to give the right impression of their height,
width, depth, and position in relation to each other when
viewed from a particular point.
If you are seeing
FACES, then you are
if you are seeing a
seeing the black
VASE, then you are
areas as the positive
seeing the white
area as the positive
space, and the white
area as the negative
space. The black
areas become the
space.
negative space.
7. Texture
-Texture plays to our sense of touch; a description
of the way something feels or looks like it would feel.

-Sometimes, the texture is an implied visual texture


that is two-dimensional. Smooth, rough, hard, soft, furry,
fluffy, and bumpy are just some different textures that evoke
different responses and reactions.
Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir Antonio Canova
The one who created
installation art using synthetic
and natural hair.

Shoplifter
Vanity Disorder

Chromo Zones Chromo Sapiens


19th-century sculptor, an artist
wishing to subvert conventions might
play with texture to create a surreal
experience for the viewer.

Antonio Canova

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