ART APP M2 Flashcards
FOUR COMMON ESSENTIALS OF ARTS
➜ Art has to be man-made;
➜ Art must be creative, not imitative;
➜ Art must benefit and satisfy man;
➜ Art is expressed through a certain medium
or material by which the artist
communicates himself to his audience.
ELEMENT OF VISUAL ARTS:
➜ Line ➜ Color ➜ Texture ➜ Shape ➜ Space and Perspective ➜ Volume/ Value ➜ Form
is a series of connected dots or a prolongation of a point to show the
shape or form of any piece of art.
line
– tend to be found in nature and
are very organic
expressive lines
lines that are very measured,
geometric, directional and angular. They tend to
appear to be man-made because of their precision
constructive lines
Lines examples-9
Vertical Lines ❖Horizontal Lines ❖Diagonal Lines ❖Broken or Jagged Lines ❖Straight Lines ❖Curve Lines ❖Repeating Lines ❖Contrasting Lines ❖Modified lines
is the most important and most noticeable of all the elements of visual
arts. Dependent on the presence of light, it is that property of an object
that makes it appealing to the visual sense.
color
those colors with values lower than the normal value. For
example, pink or fuchsia is a tint of red and azure (sky blue) is a tint of blue.
light color
are those colors with values higher than the normal value.
For example, maroon is a shade of red and navy blue is a shade of blue.
dark colors
e those colors that form a rainbow or a
prism. These are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet (ROYGBIV or VIBGYOR).
rainbow colors
those which serve to balance colors. Examples are white, gray, black,
brown, peach, cream, gold, silver, and bronze. White is the absence of all colors, while black is the
presence of all colors. Gray is produced by combining black and white; it results from the partial reflection
of the color. rays
neutral colors
is used to connoting purity, chastity, holiness, mourning,
surrender, meekness, and goodness.
white
used to signifying death, mourning, darkness, and evil.
black
used to connote life, nature, good health, and well-being.
green
used to signify jealousy, divinity, deceit, treason,
degradation, and lately Ninoy Aquino.
yellow
used to mean the earth, spiritual death, and renunciation of
the world.
brown
used to indicate food.
orange
used to signify old age, gloom, and decay.
grey
used to
mean love and femininity
pink
an element of the visual arts. associated with the sense of touch.
It is the surface characteristic of an area.
texture
surface of an object actually feels. Examples would be
sandpaper, cotton balls, tree bark, puppy fur, etc
tactile or real texture
