Elements of Art & ART GENRE

• Line

  An identifiable path created by a point moving in space. It is one-dimensional and can vary in width, direction, and length.
• Shape

  Two dimensions, height and width, are usually defined by lines.
• Value


  Describes the brightness or darkness of a color; a gradient is a series of values from darkest to lightest.
• Form


  Exist in three dimensions: height, width, and depth.
• Space

  Refers to a feeling of depth or three dimensions. It can also refer to the artist's use of the area within the picture.
• Texture

  The surface quality of an object that we sense through touch—hard, soft, rough, smooth, hairy, leathery, sharp, etc.
• source: Nature is not art but its ____.
• Color

  Reflected light, organized on a color wheel with 3 primary colors, 3 secondary colors, and 6 intermediate colors.
• Elements seen in nature

  • Vertical lines
  • Triangular and zigzag lines
  • Horizontal lines
• Art is made by man no matter how close it is to nature (Zulueta, 1994).
• Tints and shades


  Different shades of green, bright colors of blooming flowers, yellowish brown and blue colors of deserts, oceans, and skies
• Natural texture

  Bumpy, rocky, protruding, rolling, sparse, and dense
• Values of sharpness

  Lightness and darkness of colors, shininess or dullness of the surface, clarity or dimness
• Forms and shapes


  Varied forms of massive land and water distributions
• Art genre


  Kind or type of art
• As part of the study of the humanities, artists introduce several genres of "kind" or "type" of art
• Art


  The fine arts of painting, drawing, and carving, which are basically skills
• The arts represent subjects like fashion and cuisine, sports, commerce, economics, and the humanities are by nature disciplinal
• Verbal arts


  • Literature
  • Oratory
• Verbal arts


  Use words and language in such forms as poetry, fiction, and essays
• Non-verbal arts


  • Fine motor skills
  • Gross motor skills
• Fine motor skills


  Dexterity of the hands and fingers demonstrated in musical compositions, drawing, architecture, graphic arts, fashion design, lithography, painting, engraving, weaving, and other handicrafts
• Gross motor skills

  Body skills used in interior design, ceramics or pottery, film-making, and photography arts
• Mixed art

  Utilizes the combined elements of verbal and non-verbal arts, such as advertisements for commercial purposes, theater and drama, opera, song and dance, or the performing arts and cinema
• Mixed art enhances the auditory art of music and sounds in the performance of these arts
• Mixed art can also be determined in terms of the medium used in the artwork, like the use of disparate elements on a canvas to produce an assemblage