Instituto Virgen del Carmen de Cuyo School

ART: its elements

By Miss Analia Gutierrez

Art is a powerful language. It communicates thoughts, ideas and

feelings.

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It has its own vocabulary but it isnot made up of words. It is made

up of visual elements.

The visual elements are:

Colour Line Shape and form Space Texture

COLOUR

It is what the eyes see when the light is reflected

off an object.

It has got 3 properties:

• Hue: name of colour

• Value: lightness or darkness of colour

• Intensity: brightness of dullness of a hue

Discussion time: Colour wheel

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Discussion time: Which object would you describe as low or high intensity?

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LINE

It is the path of a moving point through space. There are 5 kinds of line:

• Vertical

• Horizontal

• Diagonal

• Zigzag

• Curved

Discussion time: Can you describe

the different lines in this picture? In what directions do these lines go?

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SHAPE AND FORM

Shape is an element of art that refers to an area clearly set off by one or more of the other elements of art.

They are limited to 2 dimensions:

• Lenght

• Width

Form is an element of art that refers to an object with 3 dimensions.

SPACE

It is an element of art that refers to the distance between, around, above, below and within things.

Discussion time: Which

object seems closest to you? Whichseem to be farther back?

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TEXTURE

It is an element of art that refers to the waythings feel or look as though they might feel, iftouched.

Put everything into practice…

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Images taken from:

1. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlCxd93ZkJkcBH7mAgOaoWnGufV79wFQgejXw9iMU2SW6Sdaal

2. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/B23.land_of_psychedelic_illuminations.jpg/270px-B23.land_of_psychedelic_illuminations.jpg

3. http://www.colorguides.net/images/color_wheel.gif

4. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/h/harnett/harnett_munich.jpg

5. http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/images/marc-chagall/the-green-violinist-1924.jpg

6. http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/kandinsky_transverse_lines.jpg

7. http://www.barcelo.edu.ar/uploads/contenido/Kandinsky_d.jpg

8. http://www.gallerywalk.org/GM_Staffelsee.jpg

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