TOPIC 13

THE
ELEMENTS
OF THE ART
Ed Villanueva
Nickie Jane Gardose
WHAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT

Visual art
Auditory art
Combined Art
 Visual Arts

The visual arts are art forms that create works that
are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics,
drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design,
crafts, photography, video, film making and
architecture.

The Visual Elements are Line, Shape,

Tone, Color, Pattern, Texture and Form.
EXAMPLES
 Auditory Art
The art of arranging sounds in time so as to
produce a continuous, unified, and evocative
composition, as through melody, harmony,
rhythm, and timbre.

Also known as Timed Arts; just as the

medium of visual art is sight, so the
medium of auditory art is sound.

Two categories : Music& Literature

 FUNCTIONS OF
MUSIC
a)Attempt to imitate nature sounds
b)Release of one’s emotions or feelings
c)Signals in wars
d)Means of worship and rituals
e)Form of entertainment
Combined Arts
It can refer to a collection of
different art mediums, such as painting, singing, and
musical performance. It can also
refer to organizations, that work over multiple
platforms and venues to promote
artistic endeavors.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE
ELEMENTS AND THE
PRINCIPLES OF ART.

The elements of art are the visual tools that

the artist uses to create a composition.
These are line, shape, color, value, form,
texture, and space. The principles of art
represent how the artist uses the elements
of art to create an effect and to help convey
the artist's intent.
1. Form
2. Shape
3. Line
4. Color
5. Value
6. Space
7. Texture
 Form

THE FORM OF A WORK IS ITS SHAPE, INCLUDING

ITS VOLUME OR PERCEIVED VOLUME. A THREE-
DIMENSIONAL ARTWORK HAS DEPTH AS WELL
AS WIDTH AND HEIGHT. THREE-DIMENSIONAL
FORM IS
THE BASIS OF SCULPTURE.
 Shape
Refers to a 2-dimensional, enclosed area.
Shapes could be geometric, such as
squares, circles, triangles etc. or organic
and curvaceous.
 Line
Lines and curves are marks that span a distance
between two points (or the path of a
moving point). As an element of visual art, line is
the use of various marks, outlines,
and implied lines during artwork and design.
 color

Color is the element of art that is produced when

light, striking an object, is reflected
back to the eye.
 Value

Value is the degree of lightness and darkness in a

color. The difference in values is
called contrast.
 Space
Space is any conducive area that an artist provides for
a particular purpose. Space
includes the background, foreground and middle
ground, and refers to the distances
or area(s) around, between, and within things.
 Texture
Texture, another element of art, is used to
describe how something feels or looks.
There are many forms of texture; the two main
forms are actual and visual.
Visual texture is strictly two-dimensional and is
perceived by the eye that makes it
seem like the texture.
PRINCIPLES
OF THE ART
 Rhythm

A principle of design
that indicates
movement, created by
the careful placement
of repeated elements in
a work of art
to cause a visual tempo
or beat.
 Balance

A way of combining
elements to add a
feeling of equilibrium
or stability to a work
of art. Major types
are symmetrical and
asymmetrical.
 Emphasis

A way of combining
elements to stress
the differences
between those
elements.
 Proportion

A principle of
design that refers
to the relationship
of certain
elements to the
whole and to each
other.
 unity
refers to how different
elements of an artwork
or design work come
together and create a
sense of wholeness. It
can be achieved through
proximity, simplicity,
repetition and
continuation
 pattern

is the repeating of an
object or symbol all
over the work of art.
 Variety

A principle of design
concerned with
diversity or contrast.
Variety is achieved by
using different
shapes, sizes, and/or
colors in a work of
art.
 repetition
A principle of design used to create the look
and feeling of
action and to guide the viewer’s eye
throughout the work of
art.
 Arts/Performance
Art
Performance art is a performance presented
to an audience within a fine art context,
traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance
may be either scripted or unscripted,
random
or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or
otherwise carefully planned with or without
audience participation.
Fusion Art
Fusion Art was envisioned and
formed out of a passion for art and
the artists who create
it.
OVERLAPPING ART
Overlapping is a way artists create the
illusion of depth. When one object covers
part of
another object, the object in front looks
closer to the viewer. Pattern is created
through any
repeated element of art. ... Positive space
is the object, form, figure, or shape in a
work of
art.
SOME DESIGN
PRINCIPLES
REMEMBER TO KEEP AT IT!
 Unity
When nothing distracts from the
whole, you have unity. Unity without
variation can be uninteresting - like
driving on a clear day through
Western Kansas on the interstate.
Unity with diversity generally has
more to offer in both art and in life.
Opposition
Uses contrasting visual concepts.
That same Western Kansas
landscape becomes very dramatic
and expressive when a storm builds
in the southwest. Principles can
grow out of any artistic device that
is used to produce an
effect on the viewer.
 depth
Effects of depth, space, projection toward the
viewer add interest. Linear
perspective in the real world makes things
look smaller in the distance. Some artists
try to avoid depth by making large things
duller and small things brighter, and so on,
to make the objects contradict realism.
Depth Example

A Modern Venus
RULE OF
THIRDS
 In photography, the rule of thirds is a
type of composition in which an image is
divided evenly into thirds, both
horizontally and vertically, and the
subject of the image is placed at the
intersection of those dividing lines, or
along one of the lines itself.
HOW TO BREAK
THE RULE OF
THIRDS
Framing an image so that
subjects or lines don't fall on
the rule of thirds areas can
still create a successful
image, as long as the lines
and other elements in the
image do create a strong
overall image, and capture
the viewer's eye using other
methods such as leading
lines, contrast, color,
symmetry, etc.