Look at the following works of art.

Discuss with your

groupmates. Share your observations with the class.
Contemporary Philippine arts from the regions:
What are the elements of art?
 LINE
Line is associated with the body’s axis as it moves
toward different directions and adjusts to a point of
reference through various positions and actions, such as
walking, running, standing, sitting, reclining, etc. In the
visual arts, it also refers to the quality of the line, whether
thin, broken, thick, or blended, among others. When
several lines come together, they create texture, which
can be very thin, washed or very thick, rough, or fine.
 LINE

waiting sheds of UP Diliman Quezon Hall Bldg. behind the UP Oblation

 COLOR
Color is associated with our experiences of cold and warmth,
and the quality of light in our tropical environment, the cycles
of night and day, of darkness and light.
Blue, yellow, and red are the primary colors. When they are
mixed, they produce secondary colors; yellow and red make
orange; red and blue make violet; blue and yellow make
green. When they are placed opposite each other in color
wheel, they are said to be complementary; red and green,
yellow and violet, and orange and blue.
 COLOR

School of Design and Art (SDA) Building of the La Salle College of St. Benilde
 COLOR
Some artists use color as representational element
intending to depict the world as accurately as possible.
Portraits use approximate skin tone and color;
landscape and still life depict actual conditions of the
environment though shading, play of light and dark, or
chiaroscuro.
 COLOR

The works of Fernando Amorsolo

 VALUE
Value refers to gradations of tone from light to dark,
which can be an aspect of color, but could refer to the
play of light on an object or a scene.
 VALUE

Oscar T. Navarro’s painting of a man with rooster

 TEXTURE
Texture refers to how objects and surfaces feel, and is
most associated with the sense of touch or tactility.
Textures are created when several lines combine. The
combination may be described as smooth, translucent,
fine, silky, satiny, velvety, sandy, furry, feathery, slimy,
rough, rugged, coarse, porous, irregular, jagged, thick,
thin, and so on.
 TEXTURE

The Barong and Baro’t Saya dresses of Aze Ong

 SHAPE
Shape refers to forms that are two-dimensional or
three-dimensional. Two-dimensional shapes exists as
planes having length and width. Three-dimensional
shapes possess length, width and volume. Shapes can
either be geometric (rectilinear or curvilinear),
biomorphic, or free inventions.
 SHAPE

binakol by Tininggians t’nalak of T’bolis pis syabit of Tausugs paintings in the

Cubist style
 COMPOSITION IN SPACE
Composition in space involves the relationship
between figures and elements. If also refers to how
these elements are organized and composed according
to principles of organization, among them are balance,
proportion, rhythm, unity in variety, dominance, and
subordination.
 COMPOSITION IN SPACE

The Bonifacio Monument by Guillermo Tolentino UP Diliman Main Library

 COMPOSITION IN SPACE

The Pangalay in Mindanao Traditional Houses of the Cordillera in the North

 MOVEMENT
Movement may occur in two-dimensional design as
rhythm or through the recurrence of motifs, their
alternation or progression unfolding in a series.
Movement is also much related to line, and the
direction of the eye.
 MOVEMENT

Filipino Struggles through History (1964) Nine Muses (1994) by Napoleon Abueva
 MOVEMENT

Classical ballet Traditional Asian Dances

What are the elements of art?
1. line
2. color
3. value
4. texture
5. shape
6. composition in space
7. movement