LESSON 8
ELEMENTS OF ARTS
AND PRINCIPLES OF
COMPOSITION
CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS
SUBJECT TEACHER: JHON ALBERT A. EMBUIDO
ELEMENTS OF ART
Elements of Art are aspects of form
They convey meaning, and express ideas and feelings
A. LINE
• It is associated with the body’s axis as it moves toward
different directions and adjust to a point of reference
through various positions
ELEMENTS OF ART
A. LINE
In the visual arts, it also refers to the quality of the line,
whether thin, broken, thick, or blended
Texture-when several lines come together they create
texture which can be very thin, washed or very thick,
rough or fine.
ELEMENTS OF ART
B. COLOR
Associated
with our experiences of cold and warmth,
and the quality of light in our tropical environment,
and day and night.
HUE-has something to do with how light waves
bounces off objects and enters our eye
VALUE or TONE- refers to the hue’s brightness or
darkness
ELEMENTS OF ART
ELEMENTS OF ART
C. Value
Refers to gradations of tone from light to dark,
which can be an aspect of color, but could also
specifically refer to the play of light on an object or a
scene
Inpaintings, it is shading, blending, chiaroscuro, or
the play of light and dark
ELEMENTS OF ART
D. Texture
Refers to how objects and surfaces feel, and is most
associated with the sense of touch or tactility
Textures are created by combining several lines
Itcan be described as smooth, feathery, gritty,
rough, irregular, thick, thin and so on.
E. Shape
Refers
to forms that are two-dimensional or three-
dimensional.
Two-dimensional shapes exist as planes having
length and width
Three-dimensional shapes possess length, width and
volume
Shapes can either be geometric, biomorphic, or free
inventions
F. Composition in Space
Involves relationship between figures and elements
Italso refers to how these elements are organized
and composed according to principles or
organization, balance, proportion, rhythm, unity,
dominance and subordination
G. Movement
May occur in two-dimensional design as rhythm or
through the recurrence of motifs, their alternation or
progression unfolding in a series
Movement is also very much related to line, and the
direction of the eye
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