7 elements of_arts

FOURTH GRADING PERIODLESSON 1

ILLUSTRATION NCIIFor GRADE 10

7 ELEMENTS OF ARTS

THE ELEMENTS OF ARTS ARE THE BUILDING BLOCKS USED BY ARTISTS TO CREATE A WORK OF ART.

Are used to create shape, pattern, texture, space, movement and optical illusion in design. This is an element of art defined by a point moving in space. Line may be two-or three-dimensional, descriptive, implied or abstract.

LINE

Is a closed line. Shapes can be Geometric, like squares and circles;

Organic: like free-form or natural shapes

SHAPE

GEOMETRIC ORGANIC

Light reflected off of objects.

COLORA. HUE – one of the main properties of a color as “the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to a different from stimuli that are described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet (purple).

A. CHROMA – the colorfulness relative to the brightness of a similarly illuminated area that appears to be white or highly transmitting.

Refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. It indicates the quantity of light reflected.

VALUE

Objects having three dimensions (3D), or height, width, and depth.

SPACE The element of art that refers to the emptiness or area

around or  within objects.

TEXTURE How something feels or looks like it would feel if you

could touch it. There are two kinds of texture: Real (how something actually feels, such as a sculpture) and Implied (when an artist paints or draws a texture but it is artificial).

Transition between two shapes

EDGE