MISAMIS ORIENTAL GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL

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1st Quarter Arts

ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ARTS

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The Elements of Arts – the building blocks or ingredients of art

1. Line – a mark with length and direction.
- Is a form with width and length, but no depth
3 categories of lines:
a. Horizontal – are calm and quiet
b. Vertical – suggest more of a potential for movement
c. Diagonal – strongly suggest movements and give more of a feeling of vitality to a picture.
2. Color – consist of Hue (another word for color)
3 properties of Color:
a. Hue – the name of the colors
 Primary : Yellow, Red, and Blue
 Secondary: Made by mixing two primaries (green, orange, violet/purple)
 Tertiary: mixtures of primary and adjacent secondary colors
b. Value – refers to the lightness and darkness of hue
c. Intensity – refers to the purity of the hue also known as “CHROMA”
3. Shape – an enclosed area design and determined by other art elements. 2 – dimensional (length and width)
- It formed when a line enclosed an area.
- It can be geometric or free-form.
4. Form – a 3-dimensional object or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional.
Example: a triangle which is 2 dimensional, is a shape but a pyramid which is 3-dimensional is a form.
- can be viewed from any angles.
5. Space – the distance between, around, above, below, or within things.
- Foreground, middle ground and background creates DEPTH
6. Texture – the surface quality or “feel” of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness etc.

The Principles of Art

- What we use to organize the elements of art or the tools to make art.
1. Balance – the way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work.
 Symmetrical Balance – the parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other.
- formal when both sides are arrange
 Asymmetrical Balance – when one side of a composition does not reflect the design of the other.
- informal when sides are not exactly arrange but still the image is balance
2. Emphasis – the focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most.
- it liiterally means to give importance.
3. Contrast – a large difference between two things to create interest and tension.
- Juxtaposition of different elements of design
For example: rough & smooth texture, dark and light values
4. Rhythm – regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement.
5. Pattern – is a repetition of a design
- in a design simply refers to keeping your design in a certain format.
For example: one could plan to have curved lines all around a design is a pattern.
6. Unity – when all the elements and principles work together to create a pleasing image.
- refers to all the arrangement of elements.
7. Variety – the use of differences and change to increase the visual interest of the work.
8. Proportion – the comparative relationship of one part to another with respect to size quantity or design; SCALE