ELEMENTS OF

COMPOSITION IN ARTS
WHAT IS A COMPOSITION ?

The act of combining parts or elements to form a whole.

The term use to describe the arrangement of the visual
elements.
 ELEMENTS OF
COMPOSITION IN ARTS
 UNITY

 An important principle of design that gives

artwork a sense of cohesion.
 Wholeness or completeness in artwork
 BALANCE

 Use of artistic elements such as line, texture,

color, and form in the creation of artworks.
 MOVEMENT

 Adds excitement, drama, and overall

compositional interest to an artwork
 An artist can direct how a viewer eye move
around an image by arranging the elements in a
certain way.
 RYTHYM

 Provides a path for the viewers eye to follow in

artwork.
 FOCUS

 An area of emphasis that demands the most

attention and to which the viewers eyes is drawn.
 Produce results
 CONTRAST

 Refers to the striking difference between two

elements
 Used to tell story to create better composition,
sense of unease, sense of peace or the clarity.
 PATTERN

 Design in which lines, forms or colours are

repeated.
 They offer visual clues to an underlying order
 Create visual effects
 PROPORTION

 Relation based on sized between parts or objects

within composition.
 Compares the size of some features of an object
to other features in the same composition
 GROUP 3

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