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Line Color Texture Perspective Space Form Volume

Line
- is an element of art which refers to the continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point. It may be two dimensional lines or it may be a three dimensional line or implied. (e.g. horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curve & zigzag lines)

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Line is an important element at the disposal of every artist. Through the lines of a painting or sculpture, the artist can make us know what he work is about. He uses lines to represent figures and forms.

Kinds of Lines
Horizontal Lines Vertical Lines Diagonal Lines Curved Lines Zigzag Lines

Horizontal Lines
- These are lines, which run parallel to the ground, appear to be at rest and quiet relation and contemplation. - Lines of repose and serenity. They express ideas of calmness and quiescence.

Vertical Lines
- Is associated with the body in upright standing position and generally expresses poise, alertness, equilibrium, firmness, strength, at the same time that it connotes a static position though not without tension. - Lines poised for action. They suggest poise, balance, force, aspiration, exaltation and dynamism.

Diagonal Lines
- Is associated with the body forward and charging purposely towards an objective. - (or Oblique lines) they tend to portray action, movement, change, life. They give animation to any composition in which they appear.

Curve Lines
- Shows action, life, and energy. It suggests grace and beauty and is associated with the body in movements that create a rhythm of curved lines in space. ( - Datuin, et al, p.50)

Zigzag Lines
- (crooked or jagged lines) express energy, violence, conflict and struggle. - Crooked lines has no beauty. Although it does not suffer from monotony like straight line, its changes have no order or organization. And it lacks the harmony and rhythm of a curve. - Jagged lines or broken straight lines.

Color
- It is the range of visual light in the spectrum and properties of the pigments used in making visual art. - It has the most aesthetic appeal. Delight in color is a universal human characteristics. Color is a property of light.

Three Dimensions of Colors HUE

- the name or identity of the color. Primary colors: Red, Blue & yellow Secondary colors: Violet, Green & Orange Complementary colors: those are opposite in the scale (e.g., red & green) Intermediate colors: those adjacent in the wheel (e.g., red & violet)

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Red, the color of fire and blood, is the warmest, most

vigorous and most exciting of the colors. It stands for passion and energy. Yellow,

VALUE - the lightness or darkness of the color. Source of values: the object itself (local color, e.g., the color of the cloth) Creation of values through shadows or reflection of light.

INTENSITY (Chroma)

- is the amount of pigment or saturation. The brightness & dullness of a hue.

Color Schemes
Monochromatic: This scheme uses different values of a

single hue. For example, dark green, medium green and light green.
Analogous: This color scheme uses colors that are side by

side on the color wheel and share a hue.

Warm or cool color scheme: Warm colors schemes with

red, yellow and orange colors remind us of the sun and its warmth. Artists use blue, green and violet - cool color schemes to make us think of cool items such as ice or grass.

Ways of Using Color

Representational Use the artist paints objects from the real world. Impressionist Use rejects the painting or colors in the local order.

Decorative or ornamental Use (e.g., carpets, textiles, wallpaper)

Personal Use (e.g., red face bears strong feelings) Scientific Use the use of a consistent format of a colored square of a

different hue.

Symbolic Use (e.g., color of the flag)

Characteristics of Color
Colors differ in intensity and vividness. A color is changed by the presence of other colors. Colors have definite psychological and emotional

connotations.
Black: death
White: innocence, purity Blue: heaven, truth, virginity Red: blood, love, hate Yellow: divinity, sacredness, degradation, treason, deceit Brown: spiritual death, renunciation of the world

Texture
- is the way an object feels when you touch it. It can be seen as well as felt. Surface quality real or implied. (e.g. smooth, rough)

Perspective Space
- Is an element of art that refers to the distance between, around, above, below and within things. In both two and threedimensional works of art, the shapes or forms are called the positive area. The empty spaces between the shapes are called negative spaces. The relationship between the positive and the negative space will affect how the artwork is interpreted.

Form
Like shapes, forms have length and width. Forms also have a third dimension, depth. Form is an element of art that refers to an object with three dimensions. With the forms found in works of art, such as sculpture, you can actually experience the three dimensions by walking around or into the works.

Volume
- Is that quality of an object which enables us to know that it has thickness, length and breadth. We see volume in two ways in painting since paintings are two dimensional. The first is by outline contours or shapes of objects. Second is by lights and shadows.

References: Art Appreciation: Looking Beyond (2009) By Ronnie Espergal Pasigui Internet Source: www.google.com/i mages

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