ELEMENTS OF FINE ARTS

Lines
- Visual path
- Boundaries of shapes and figures
1) HORIZONTAL LINE
- SERENITY
- STABILITY
2) VERTICAL LINE
- STRENGTH
- STURDINESS
3) DIAGONAL LINE
- UNREST
- MOVEMENT
- UNCERTAINTY
- INSTABILITY
- ACTION
4) CURVED LINE
- FLUIDITY
- GRACE
- GRADUAL CHANGE OF DIRECTION
5) ANGLES
- ABRUPT CHANGE OF DIRECTION
- TENSION
- CONFUSION
- CHAOS
- CONFLICT
Shapes
ORGANIC or GEOMETRIC
Space
POSITIVE space created by an image or
sculpture
NEGATIVE space around and between
parts of an image or sculpture
Manipulations of Space:
* Figure-Ground Relationship
- Use of Tesselation
- Spatial Organization
- Overlapping Planes
- Perspective
Vanishing point (Linear Perspective)
- Variations in size
- Positions on the Picture Plane
- Summary
FOREGROUND

Large size

Low in the picture

Parallel lines far apart

Overlapping other forms

Sharply defined forms

Intense colors
Rough textures
BACKGROUND
Small size
Set high in the picture
Parallel lines converging
Overlapped by other forms
Blurred forms
Grayed colors
Smooth textures

Colors
PIGMENTATION
- The property that enables things to
absorb and reflect only one color from the
spectrum
COMPLEMENTARY ANALOGOUS
- Primary triad, Secondary triad,
Intermediate
COOL & WARM
- ORANGE
Flesh, warmth, life, informality,
approachability
- BLUE
Coolness, Reserved, Elegance, Distance,
Sadness
- RED
Passion, Erotic, Anger, Danger
NEUTRALS (black, white and grey)
TENEBRISM
- Heightened chiaroscuro (interplay of light
and shadow)
THE THREE COMPONENTS OF COLOR:
1. Hue
- Another term for the names of color it is
how we call the actual color of a pigment or
object. Strictly, there are only 7 hues: those
of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo and violet.
2. INTENSITY (aka CHROMA OR SATURATION)
- Brightness or dullness of a hue created by
mixing a color with its complement (e.g., red
with green). The chroma or saturation of a
color is a measure of how vibrant or intense
it is. Think of it as pure, bright color,
compared to a color diluted with white, or
darkened by black or grey.
3. VALUE (aka TONE)

- Quality and depth of a color, particularly

the gradations from light to dark. A color may
be toned down to make it less vivid, or
toned up to make it more solid or brighter.
- Measure of how light or dark a color is,
without any consideration for its hue. May
further be classified as the shade of a color,
composed by adding more black pigment, or
a tint, composed by adding more white
pigment.
INTENSITY vs. VALUE:
- VALUE
Relationship between blacks, whites and
grays
- INTENSITY
Degree of lightness and darkness in a color
- With intensity youre considering how pure
or intense the hue is; with value, youre not
considering what the hue is at all just how
light or dark it is.
- Intensity is either bright or dull; value is
either
light or dark.
- You create intensity by adding more or less
of its complementary hue; you create value
by adding black or white to a pigment.
Texture
- Clarifies space
- Creates spatial depth and volume
- Impasto

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN IN VISUAL ARTS

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Unity
Variety
Pattern
Harmony
Contrast
Movement
Balance
Symmetrical, Asymmetrical, Radial
- Emphasis
- Rhythm
Repetition of accented elements
- Proportion and Scale
- SCALE
size in relation to a constant size
- PROPORTION
size relationships: Parts of a whole; two
or more items as a unit

DANCE
Form based = Ballet
Modern dance
- Isadora Duncan
- Rebellion
- Freedom
- Back to nature
Doris Humphrey
- The Art of Making Dances
- Choreography as a Science
- Movement exists between the Arc of Two
Deaths
- Composing dances visual BUT mostly
musical
Elements of dance
1) Body
- training = skills
- physical presence
- form/shape
2) Energy
- Manner in which movement is performed
- Expressions, Gestures, Posture, Mood
= Meaning, Feeling, Idea
- Cheer dance, Tango, Hip-hop

3) Space
- Environment
- Pathways
- Levels
- Relationship
- Positive / Negative
4) Time
- Tempo
- Duration
- Freeze
- Accent
ELEMENT OF MUSIC
1) Rhythm the time element of music. Also
called the beat.
2) Meter the organization of beats into
groups.
3) Tempo Fastness or slowness of the music
4) Pitch the highness or lowness of a sound
in the musical scale. Also called register
5) Melody the musical line; combination of
pitch and rhythm.
6) Timbre the sound quality / the
characteristic of the sound.
7) Dynamics Loudness or softness of music.
8) Texture Layering of the sound;
Monophonic;
Homophonic; Polyphonic
(counterpoint).
SCULTURE
From Sculpere Latin, Carve
2 major elements of sculpture
Mass and Space
Representational or Non-representational
Principles of sculpture
1) Orientation
- Lighting
- In the round or in relief
2) Proportion
- Position (in relation to viewer)
3) Scale
- Setting
4) Balance
Functional vs. Non-functional