Arts and Its Visual Elements

Unit I. Integrative Art as Applied to Contemporary Art in the Philippines

Prepared and presented by: Mariella B. Miaga
Teacher
What do we mean by visual
elements in arts?

Arts and its

Visual
LINE
Line

This refers to a prolongation of a point or a mark on a

surface. Solid lines can be used in order to define form
while broken lines are typically used to suggest hidden
forms.
Shape and Mass
 This element refers to an
area with boundaries
identified or drawing lines.
A shape may be natural or living
forms called an organic shape
and can be irregular or rounded.
mass refers to solid
portions of a
three-dimensional
object.
COLOR
Color This refers to visual
perception that allows a person to
differentiate objects due to the
way various wavelengths of light
are reflected.
Color is a very important
element because it can
communicate information
and emotion to the viewer.
These are the three properties of color:

● Hue
● Value
● Saturation
Hue, which refers to the basic or pure color, and is
represented in the color wheel.
Value, which refers to the lightness and darkness
of color. A light color or tint is the result of
adding white to a hue, while a dark color or shade
results from adding black to a hue.
Saturation, which refers to brightness and dullness of color. It is also
referred to as purity of the color.
A bright color can be produced by adding more pigment to the same hue,
while a dull color can be produced by adding Gray or the color’s
complement to the pigment.
Is it a hue, value, or saturation?
Is it a hue, value, or saturation?
Is it a hue, value, or saturation?
Is it a hue, value, or saturation?
Is it a hue, value, or saturation?
The color wheel is an arrangement of primary,
secondary and tertiary colors.
It is important tool to identify
which colors can work well if
used in a certain artwork which
is the color schemes or color
relationships.
These are some of the color schemes:
● Monochromatic
● Analogous
● Complementary
● Split-Complementary
● TRiadic
● Tetradic
Monochromatic

involves using the same hue but with different gradients

of value.
Analogous
entails the use of three or four adjacent colors in
the color wheel.
Complementary

involves the use of a color and its complement,

meaning the color located opposite of the first
color.
Split-complementary

a close relative to the complementary color

scheme. But instead of using the color’s
complement, this scheme uses the two colors
adjacent to the complement.
Triadic – uses three colors that are of equal
distance with each other.
 Tetradic – also known as double complementary
color scheme, this uses two pairs of complementary
colors.
Texture
This element refers to the feel or appearance of a
surface.
A person may describe as actual or implied Actual texture
can be felt tangibly based on the material that is used for
the artwork while implied texture can be exhibited, for
instance, in a painting of fur of an animal.
VALUE
This element refers to lightness or darkness of an
area. This is evident in creating Shadows for a
two-dimensional object to give an illusion of
depth.
SPACE
refers to the area that is occupied by an object or a
subject, as well as the area surrounding that object
or subject.
An illusion of space can still be created in a
two-dimensional surface using perspective.
There are two types of perspective:
● atmospheric perspective, which utilizes the properties of
light and air in depicting the illusion of distance; and
● linear perspective, which involves the use of vanishing
points and receding hidden lines.
Atmospheric perspective refers to the effect the
atmosphere has on the appearance of objects when you
look at them from a distance. You see objects further back
into the distance less clearly and their color changes in
value, saturation and hue.
linear perspective, a system of creating an illusion of
depth on a flat surface. All parallel lines (orthogonals)
in a painting or drawing using this system converge in
a single vanishing point on the composition’s horizon
line.
Time and Motion
Movement in the visual arts can either be an
illusion or an actual motion.
An illusion of movement is more common in
two-dimensional artworks. On the other hand, actual
motion is easily seen in kinetic sculpture that moves with
the wind or are vibrating with the surrounding air.
References:
Wilson K. Panisan, Leslie B. Gazzingan, Gregorio L. Samar, Corie Chuza G. Boongaling.
Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions. Mutya PublishingHouse, Inc. Malabon
City:2016
https://www.virtualartacademy.com/atmospheric-perspective/#:~:text=What%20Is%20Atmo
spheric%20Perspective%3F,in%20value%2C%20saturation%20and%20hue.
https://www.britannica.com/art/linear-perspective