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Visual Elements of Arts

The document discusses various visual art forms in the Philippines, ranging from Western-influenced styles to indigenous works. It mentions traditional visual arts like painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as other functional forms such as basketry, metalcraft, and textiles. The document also outlines the key visual elements of art, including line, shape, color, texture, value, space, and time/motion, to help describe paintings and sculptures.

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Visual Elements of Arts

The document discusses various visual art forms in the Philippines, ranging from Western-influenced styles to indigenous works. It mentions traditional visual arts like painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as other functional forms such as basketry, metalcraft, and textiles. The document also outlines the key visual elements of art, including line, shape, color, texture, value, space, and time/motion, to help describe paintings and sculptures.

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The term “visual arts” encompasses a wide range of forms created by Filipinos.

It ranges from Western-


influenced visual art forms to works created by folk and indigenous people. Traditionally, these visual art forms include
painting, sculpture, and architecture. However, there are other functional visual art forms in the country that need to be
appreciated as well. Some of these forms include advertising art, basketry, metalcraft, mat weaving, pottery, and textile
weaving.
This part presents all visual art forms presented earlier in this introduction. However, it should be emphasized
that the aim for this part is not to make a clear delineation of each visual art form. Bear in mind that tackling each art
form can help in understanding further the scope of the visual arts.
In order to understand how to describe a painting or a sculpture, it is important to comprehend first the visual
elements of art. These visual elements of art are line, color, shape, space, value, texture, time and motion.

Visual Elements of Arts


The visual element of art are the parts of an artwork that an artist plan. The elements are:

LINE
Line is one of the visual elements of art. You can find lines everywhere you look. This refers to a prolongation of a point
or a mark on a surface. Solid lines can be used in order to define form while broken lines are typically used to suggest
hidden forms.

SHAPE AND MASS


Shapes are flat. Shape is one of the elements of art. When lines meet, shapes are formed. This element refers
to an area with boundaries identified or drawing lines. 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.

COLOR
Color is one of the elements of art. Artist use color in many different ways. The colors we see are light waves
absorbed or reflected by everything around us. In nature, a rainbow is white light that is broken apart by the moisture in
the air.

TEXTURE
Texture is one of the elements of art. Texture is the way something feels when you touch it. Artists also create
the illusion of texture in artworks such as paintings, drawings and prints. It can be smooth, rough.
This element refers to the feel or appearance of a surface. A. person may describe as actual or implied. 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.

VALUE
Value is the lightness or darkness of a color. You can get different values of a color by mixing its shades and
tints.
This element refers to lightness or darkness of an area. This is evident in creating shadows for a two-dimensional object
to give an illusion of depth.

SPACE
Space refers to the area that is occupied by an object or a subject, as well as the area surrounding that object
or subject. An illusion of space can still be created in a two-dimensional surface using perspective. There are two types
of 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.

TIME AND MOTION


Movement in the visual arts can either be an illusion or an actual 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 are vibrating with the surrounding air.

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