Elements of Arts

Element of Arts

There are a few elements of arts which are the basic units of a visual image. These elements are space, line, color, shape, texture, form, and value.

Space

Space is the area provided for a particular purpose. It may have two dimension including length and width. This is for the floor, wall and others. Some of them even have height as one of the dimension. Spaces are all about the foreground, middle ground and lastly the background. They will be shown by using distances or areas. The background image will be more blur and not much detailed while the fore ground and middle ground will be big and clear.

Lines

Line are made out of points. From lines, it form a shape when a line join together. Doesn't mean only straight line can form shapes, even curvy lines, zig-zag, dash, parallel or lots more will form shape.

Colors

Colors can only be see with lights. Without light, everything will be black and dark. That is why after rain, rainbow appear in the sky because of the refraction of the light rays. Colors can be grouped into 2 different type; Primary colors, secondary colors and lastly the tertiary colors. Besides, from the primary colors, there are categories into 2 type which are cool and warm colors. Warm colors are red, yellow, and orange while cool are blue, green and purples.

Shapes

Shapes are defined as an enclosed area of lines. Shape can be differentiate into 2 groups, organic and geometric. Organic shape are those which shape like jelly or others that don't really have a edges or symmetric faces. On the other hand, geometric shapes are like square, triangle, rectangle, circle and the others.

Texture

Texture is the feeling of the surface of the objects. It can be rough types such as sand paper, rocks, wood, and others. It also can be smooth like silks, cotton, etc.

Form

Form is a 3D like of an object. It have 3 dimension which are top, side, and front. It also have different groups which are geometric or natural. geometric form are the one which is made by man while the natural are the organic form.

Value

Value are the quantity of light or dark on the objects or surfaces which also called a tone according to the depth and perspective of the object.