ELEMENTS OF ART

AND
PRINCIPLES OF
COMPOSITION
 •Art is a beauty to
behold.
• The elements of art are the basic components
of art-marking. It is impossible to create
a work of art without using at least one of the
seven elements of art.
 LINE
• It is the foundation of all drawing. It is the first and most versatile of the
visual elements. Line in an artwork can be used in many different ways. It
can be used to suggest shape, pattern, form, structure, growth, depth,
distance, rhythm, movement and a range of emotions. We have a
psychological response to different types of lines:
• Curved lines suggest comfort and ease
• Horizontal lines suggest distance and calm
• Vertical lines suggest height and strength
• Jagged lines suggest turmoil and anxiety
The way we draw a line can convey
different expressive qualities:
• Freehand lines can express the
personal energy and mood of the
artist
• Mechanical lines can express a
rigid control
• Continuous lines can lead the eye
in certain directions

UP Oblation
• Broken lines can
express the ephemeral
or the insubstantial
• Thick lines can
express strength
• Thin lines can express
delicacy
 COLO
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• It is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is
reflected back to the eye.  There are three properties to color.
• The first is hue, which simply means the name we give to a color (red,
yellow, blue, green, etc.).
• The second property is intensity, which refers to the vividness of the
color. A color's intensity is sometimes referred to as its "colorfulness", its
"saturation", its "purity" or its "strength".
• The third and final property of color is its value, meaning how light or dark
it is. The terms shade and tint refer to value changes in colors.
 COLO
• It  the visual element that has the strongest effect
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on our emotions. We use color to create the mood
or atmosphere of an artwork.
• There are many different approaches to the use of
color: Color as light, as tone, as pattern, as form,
as symbol, as movement, as harmony, as contrast,
and as mood.
COLOR

School of Design and

Art
St. Benilde

River of Life
Leeroy Ocampo’s Galo Ocampo
Work
 VALUE
•It is the lightness or darkness of a color.
•In a representational painting, value plays the role
of describing three important characteristics of the
subject: Whether the subject has volume or is flat.
What kind of texture the surface of the subject has.
Where the light source is located, and how bright it
is.
VALUE
VALUE

Bayanihan
Dante Hipolito

Farm Girl
Fernando Amorsolo
 TEXTURE
• It is used to describe the way a three-dimensional work actually
feels when touched. In two-dimensional work, such as painting, it
may refer to the visual "feel" of a piece. It appeals to our sense of
touch, which can evoke feelings of pleasure, discomfort, or
familiarity. 

Barong and Baro’t Saya Crochet Dresses Imelda Cajipe-Endaya Work

Aze Ong
 SHAPE
• There are various ways to categorize form and shape. Form and
shape can be thought of as either two dimensional or three
dimensional. Two dimensional form has width and height. It can
also create the illusion of three dimension objects. Three
dimensional shape has depth as well as width and height.
• Geometric forms are those which correspond to named regular
shapes, such as squares, rectangles, circles, cubes, spheres,
cones, and other regular forms.
 SHAPE

Binakol
Tinggians of Abra

T’nalak
Southern Minaanao Pis Syabit
Tausugs
 SHAPE
• In woodcarving features the sarimanok in a Maranao okir. While buildings and
houses also take many forms and shapes.
• Painting in a Cubist Style, Expressionism, or Realistic.
Stations of the Cross
Vicente Manansala

Ang Kiukok’s Work

Sarimanok Church of the Holy Sacrifice

UP Diliman
 COMPOSITION IN
SPACE
• Space, as one of the classic seven elements of art, refers to the distances
or areas around, between, and within components of a piece.
• It can be in a circular composition, town planning like Neoclassic, dancing,
houses and system of beliefs.

Bonifacio Monument Bahay na Bato

Guillermo Tolentino Spanish Town Planning
 COMPOSITION IN
SPACE

Pangalay

Bahay Kubo

Number of
Staircase