ART 002 Mod 5(Visual Elements of Arts and Design)

• VISUAL ELEMENTS OF ARTS

  ●LINE

  ●SHAPE

  ●TONE

  ●COLOR

  ●PATTERN

  ●TEXTURE

  ●FORM

  -Are the building blocks of composition in art.
• LINE- Is the FOUNDATION of all DRAWING, It is the FIRST and MOST VERSATILE OF THE VISUAL ELEMENTS OF ART.
• Different Types of Lines

  CURVED LINE- Comfort and Ease.

  HORIZONTAL LINE- Distance and Calm

  VERTICAL LINE- Height and Strength

  JAGGED LINE- Turmoil and Anxiety
• THE WAY WE DRAW LINE CAN CONVEY DIFF EXPRESSIVE QUALITIES FREEHAND LINES- Express the personal energy and mood of the artist.

  MECHANICAL LINES- Express Rigid

  Control.

  CONTINUOS LINES- Can lead eye in certain directions.

  BROKEN LINES- Can express the Ephemeral or Insubstanial.

  THICK LINES- Express Strength.

  THIN LINES- Express Delicacy.
• SHAPE- Can be natural or man made regular or irregular,flat (2dimensional).
• BEHAVIOR OF SHAPES

  1.Shape can be used to control your feelings in the composition of an artworks.

  2.Squares and Rectangle can portray STRENGTH & STABILITY.

  3.Circles and Ellipses represent Continuous Movement.

  4.Triangles can lead the eye in upward movement.

  5.Inverted Triangle can create sense of Imbalance & Tension.
• TONE- Is the Lightness or Darkness of a color.
• COLOR- Is the Visual Element that has the STRONGEST EFFECT on our emotions.

  ORIGINAL COLOR+WHITE= Tints

  ORIGINAL COLOR+GREY=Tones

  ORIGINAL COLOR+BLACK=Shades
• PATTERN- Is made by REPEATING or ECHOING the elements of an artwork to communicate a sense of balance.
• 2 BASIC TYPE OF PATTERN

  NATURAL PATTERN- Often based on the Inspiration we get from observing natural patterns that occur in nature.

  MAN MADE PATTERN- Used for both Structural and Decorative purposes.

  note: both can be regular and irregular, organic or geometric....
• TEXTURE- Surface Quality of an Artwork, THE ROUGHNESS and SMOOTHNESS of the material.
• OPTICAL TEXTURE- Artist may use his/her skillful painting technique to CREATE ILLUSIONS OF TEXTURE.

  PHYSICAL TEXTURE- Artist may paint with EXPRESSIVE BRUSHSTROKES whose texture convey the Physical and Emotional Energy of both Artist and his/her subject.

  EPHEMERAL TEXTURE- Third Category of Texture whose fleeting forms are subject to change like CLOUDS,SMOKE,FLAMES and LIQUIDS.
• FORM- Physical Volume of a Shape and the space that it occupies.
• 3 DIMENSIONAL FORM- It can be created from SCULPTURAL MATERIALS, Like CLAY,WAX,PLASTER,WOOD,STONE and so on....
• 2 DIMENSIONAL FORM- Construct the Illusion of 3D in 2D Media by skillful manipulation of the visual elements.