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  • Visual Arts

    The arts that meet the eye and a vocal emotion through an expression of skill and imagination.
  • Categories of visual arts
    • Graphic (flat/2d)
    • Plastic (3d)
  • 5 elements of visual art
    1. Lines
    2. Shapes
    3. Space
    4. Texture
    5. Color
  • Lines

    Associated with the body's axis as it moves toward different directions and are used to a point of reference through various positions and actions
  • Types of lines
    • Horizontal
    • Vertical
    • Curved
    • Diagonal
    • Organic
  • Shape

    Forms that are two dimensional or three dimensional. 2d has length and width while 3d has length width and volume
  • Types of shapes
    • geometric - can be described using mathematical formulas
    • Free form or organic - irregular and uneven
  • Space

    Involves the outer and inner portion, the emptiness and area between, around, above, below or within objects.
  • Types of space
    • positive - the subject of the piece itself
    • Negative - the empty spaces that the artist has created around the object
  • Texture

    How objects and surface feel, andes most associated with the sense of touch or tactility
  • Types of texture
    They are determined by the light or dark values that it has.
    • Rough - characterized by a surface that reflects light and evenly
    • Smooth - reflects light evenly
  • Color

    It is associated with coldness and warmth. Element that results from the light waves reflected from objects and enters the eyes
  • Hue

    Specific color in the color spectrum
  • Value 

    The lightness or darkness of a hue
    • tint (light value)
    • shade (dark value)
    • intensity (brightness or dullness)
  • Color harmonies
    Monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split complementary
  • Monochromatic

    Uses only one hue and its lighter or darker variations
  • Analogous 

    Uses three or five colors which are all adjacent each other in the color wheel
  • Complementary colors

    Two colors that are opposite of each other in the color wheel
  • Split complementary

    Combination of one hunt and the hugs on each side of its complement