Arts and its Visual Elements

• The Visual Elements of art:(8)

  > Line

  > Color

  > Shape and Mass

  > Space

  > Value

  > Texture

  > Time

  > Motion
• Lines refer to a prolongation of a point or a mark on a surface. Solid

  lines can be used to define form while broken lines are typically used

  to suggest hidden forms.
• This element refers to an area with boundaries identified or drawing lines.

  Shape and Mass
• A shape may be natural or living forms called an organic shape and can be irregular or rounded. It may also be measured forms called geometric shape. In contrast to shape, which is two-dimensional, mass refers to solid portions of a three-dimensional object.
• This refers to visual perception that allows a person to differentiate objects due to the way various wavelengths of light are reflected.

  Color
• Three properties of color:

  > Hue

  > Value

  > Saturation
• Refers to the basic or pure color, and is represented in the color wheel.

  Hue
• refers to the lightness and darkness of color.

  Value
• which refers to brightness and dullness of color. It is also referred to as purity of the color.

  Saturation
• A light color or tint is the result of adding white to a hue, while a dark color or shade results from adding black to a hue.
• A bright color can be produced by adding more pigment to the same hue, while a dull color can be produced by adding gray or the color’s complement to the pigment.
• It is an arrangement of primary secondary and tertiary colors. It is an important tool to identify which colors can work well if used in a certain artwork which is the color schemes or colorrelationships.


  The Color Wheel
• Color Schemes of The Color Wheel:

  > Monochromatic

  > Analogous

  > Complementary

  > Split-Complementary

  > Triadic

  > Tetradic
• This involves using the same hue but with different gradients of value.

  Monochromatic
• This entails the use of three or four adjacent colors in the color wheel.

  Analogous
• This involves the use of a color and its complement - meaning the color located opposite of the first color.

  Complementary
• This is a close relative to the complementary color scheme. But instead of using the color’s complement, this scheme uses the two colors adjacent to the complement.

  Split-Complementary
• This uses three colors that are of equal distance from each other.

  Triadic
• This is also known as a double complementary color scheme, which uses two pairs of complementary colors.

  Tetradic
• This element refers to the feel or appearance of a surface.

  Texture
• Actual texture can be felt tangibly based on the material that is used for the artwork while implied texture can be exhibited, for instance, in a painting of fur of an animal.
• This element refers to the lightness or darkness of an area. This is evident in creating shadows for a two-dimensional object to give an illusion of depth.

  Value
• This refers to the area that is occupied by an object or a subject, as well as the area surrounding that object or subject.

  Space
• Two Types of Texture:

  > Actual Texture

  > Implied Texture
• two types of perspective:

  > Atmospheric Perspective

  > Linear Perspective
• Atmospheric Perspective, which utilizes the properties of light and air in depicting the illusion of distance; and Linear Perspective, which involves the use of vanishing points and receding hidden lines.
• Movement in the visual arts can either be an illusion or an actual motion.

  Time and Motion
• An illusion of movement is more common in two-dimensional artworks. On the other hand, actual motion is easily seen in kinetic sculpture that moves with the wind or vibrates with the surrounding air.