ELEMENTS OF ART

- Building blocks of an artwork, tools artist

used in creating an artwork
PRINCIPLES OF ART
- Arrangements of elements (building blocks)
- The way an artist can organized the elements
of art to create a wide range of effects.
 • It is most easily defined as a
mark that spans a distance
between two points (or the path
ELEMENT OF of a moving point), taking any
CONTEMPORARY ARTS : form along the way.

LINE
• As a line element, line pertains
to the use of various marks,
outlines and implied lines in
artwork and design, most often
used to define shape in two
dimensional work.
 • It may be created by forming of
two or more shapes or as three-
dimensional shape (cube,
ELEMENT OF pyramid, sphere, etc.).
CONTEMPORARY ARTS : • It may be enhanced by tone,
texture and colour. Form is
FORM considered three-dimensional
showing height, width and
depth. Examples of these are
sculpture, theater play and
figurines
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FORM
 • Pertains to the use of areas in
two dimensional space that can
be defined by edges, setting
ELEMENT OF one flat specific space apart
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• It can be geometric
SHAPE • ( square, circle, triangle,
hexagon, etc.) or organic (such
as the shape of a , leaf,
boomerang, etc.) in nature.
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SHAPE
 • The quality of a surface or the
way any work of art is
represented. Lines and shading
ELEMENT OF can be used to create different
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• For example, if one is
TEXTURE portraying certain fabrics, one
needs to give the feeling of the
right texture so that it closely
resembles to what the artist is
trying to convey.
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TEXTURE
 • The are provided for a particular
purpose.
• It may have two dimensions
ELEMENT OF (length and width), such as a floor,
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(length, width, and height

SPACE • It includes the background,

foreground and middle ground.
Space refers to the distances or
areas around, between or within
components of a piece.
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TEXTURE
TWO TYPES OF SPACES ELEMENT OF
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1. POSITIVE SPACE
2. NEGATIVE SPACE TEXTURE
 • Pertains to the use of hue in
artwork and design.
ELEMENT OF • It defines as the primary colors
CONTEMPORARY ARTS : (red, yellow, blue) which cannot be
mixed in pigment from other hues,
COLOR secondary colors (green, orange,
purple) which are directly mixed
from combinations of primary
colors.
 • Further combinations of
ELEMENT OF primary and secondary colors
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COLOR • Tint and Shade are references

that add variations in value.
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COLOR
 • Refers to the use of light
ELEMENT OF
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highlight, in an artwork.
VALUE • Value is directly related to
contrast.
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VALUE
ELEMENTS OF ART
- Building blocks of an artwork, tools artist
used in creating an artwork
PRINCIPLES OF ART
- Arrangements of elements (building blocks)
- The way an artist can organized the elements
of art to create a wide range of effects.
• Refers to the arrangement of
opposite elements and effects. For
PRINCIPLE OF
example: light and dark colors, CONTEMPORARY ARTS :
smooth and rough textures, large
and small shapes. Contrast can be
used to create variety, visual CONTRAST
interest, and drama in an artwork.
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CONTRAST
• Emphasis refers to the area of an
artwork that dominates attention or
draws interest. It is often the area a PRINCIPLE OF
viewer looks first. CONTEMPORARY ARTS :
• Artists can create emphasis by
contrasting the elements of art
such as: color, shape, size and
EMPHASIS
dominance, detail, contrast and
isolation
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EMPHASIS
• Movement can be thought of in two
ways – the first refers to how an
artist depicts movement using the PRINCIPLE OF
elements and principles of art. CONTEMPORARY ARTS :
• The second way refers to the visual
flow of an artwork, indicated by the MOVEMENT
path a viewer’s eyes take as they
look at the artwork.
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MOVEMENT
• refers to the movement or action of
a composition, usually achieved
through repetition of lines, shapes, PRINCIPLE OF
colors, and more. It creates a visual CONTEMPORARY ARTS :
tempo in artworks and provides a
path for the viewer’s eye to follow. RHYTHM
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RHYTHM
• the size relationship between
the various parts of an artwork.
Artists can use scale and PRINCIPLE OF
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proportion to create sensations
such as depth, realism, PROPORTION
disorientation, and drama
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PROPORTION
• refers to the distribution of
visual weight in a composition.
Each part of the composition PRINCIPLE OF
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works with other parts of the
composition to appear equal BALANCE
and harmonious in balance
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BALANCE
• Unity, also known as harmony,
refers to the cohesiveness of
an artwork—how whole, PRINCIPLE OF
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consistent, and complete it
appears. UNITY
• The pleasing combination of
elements to create a
harmonious composition.
Unity is achieved through:
• repetition
• simplicity
PRINCIPLE OF
• harmony CONTEMPORARY ARTS :
• contrast
• theme and variation UNITY
• proximity
• continuity
• refers to the elements of a
composition that differ from PRINCIPLE OF
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one another. Variety
creates visual interest and VARIETY
energy
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VARIETY