Value and Its Relation to Other Elements

Investigating art in its integral

part should consider the relationships of
value with other elements of design:
line, colour, texture, and shape. These
elements should demonstrate some
value contrast in a given material,
maintaining its visibility.

Value in the element of texture heightens a given

subject of art. Through value, an illusion of texture is created
and a subject’s textures are felt by way of looking,
manifesting plasticity of the subject.

Chiaroscuro

Value is closely related to

chiaroscuro, a term frequently mentioned in
the visual art industry. Chiaroscuro refers to
the form of representation with obvious
contrasting effect between lights and darks.
The artists popularly with chiaroscuro
Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Leonardo
de Vinci, Rembrandt, and Caravaggio. But
local artists in Mindanao do also practice Chiaroscuro like
the work entitled Timely Illumination of Sherwin Mara. Here,
the contrasts of value are very evident as manifested through
the well-established dark background, creating emphasis on
the sharp and lighter value of the subject holding a candle.

Learning Outcome 1.5

4. Texture (its Relationship to the Visual Arts)

Among the elements of design, texture is distinct is to the

fact that it activates two sensory processes at the same time. The
 50

sense of sight is clearly activated in

viewing an artwork or picture. Objects are
recognized by looking at the artist’s
depiction of the perceived shape, colour,
and value pattern. Likewise, the artist
includes the surface character which is
typical of the object drawn or painted.
Types of Texture
Actual Texture

Undeni
able, there
are artworks
that are
intended to be
touched.
These are
works where
real materials
are attached
on the surface
of the pictorial
field. In this
attempt the
artist intends
to employ the
actual texture.

In actual texture, it may

include the category of texture built
through a medium as applied on a
working pictorial ground or surface.
These are works that make use of
the impasto technique, that is
producing rough textures by way of
building up generous application of
pigments on canvas (see figure
8.17).
Simulated Texture
The most common texture
 employed in visual arts is known as
simulated texture. Relatively, the
approach is a careful rendition or
copy of the light and dark patterns of
the surface character. An essential
academic procedure or discipline can
be found in various creative
representational applications such as
naturalistic or realistic effects on
genre and still life painting.
Invented Texture
Invented texture may be
sourced from nature and from the
artist’s hands through a proactive
metamorphosis. The procedure
happens according to the
requirements of the work and the
kind of expression the artist wants to
achieve.
As such, texture will be treated more as a decorative rather than a surface
representation, optimizing its