Elements and Principles of Contemporary Arts - CPAR 1Q

Line

Associated with the body's axis as it moves toward different directions and adjusts to a point of reference though various positions and actions.

University Gateway (straight), Church of the Holy Sacrifice (Jagged)

Examples of Line in architecture

Alignment and angle

Examples of Line in dance.

Color

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.

Hue

Refers to the name of the colors and how light waves of various lengths and rapidity of vibrations bounce off objects and enter our eyes. This includes warm and cool.

Warm hue

Hue with longer wavelength, distinct, easily discernible, and seems to advance towards us.

Cool hue

Hue with shorter wavelength, seems to merge into each other, and appears to recede.

Blue, yellow, red

The primary colors.

Orange, violet, green

The secondary colors.

Saturation

How 'true' is the color.

Intensity

The degree or purity of saturation of strength of a color.

Brilliance

The vividness or intense amount of light.

Does not change, less intense/duller

When we mix a brilliant color with a neutral hue like gray, its hue _______ change, it just becomes _______.

Value/Tone

Brightness or darkness

Tint

Adding white to a pure hue.

Shade

Adding black to a pure hue.

Tone

Adding grey to a pure hue.

Polychromatic

Many colors

Monochromatic

One color, even when we mix the color with white or gray to achieve its many tones.

Schemes

Complementary (opposite colors), rectangle (two complementary pairs), analogous (colors next to each other), triadic (colors evenly spaced out), square (four colors evenly spaced out), split complementary (base with two complementary colors).

Black

A color that absorbs all.

White

A color that reflects all.

Representational

It intends to depict the world as accurately as possible (ex. portraits approximate skin tone and color).

Chiaroscuro

Play of light and darkness.

Galo Ocampo

The artists who conveys his ideas extreme suffering in a depleted world using an overly saturated color scheme.

Leeroy New

The artist that creates polychromatic fantasy landscapes with an intense color scheme in their visual art paired with performance. It expresses a personal cosmology.

Rameer Tawasil

Their artwork echoes the color scheme of Mindnao's material culture.

Nestor Vinluan

Their abstract paintings are muted, making us focus on the form and elements of the painting itself.

T'nalak

Its texture is inspired by animal skin, most especially snakes.

Dagmay

Its color is based on the available materials from that region.

Value

Gradations of tone from light to dark, which can be an aspect of color but could also specifically refer to the play of light on an object or a scene,

Representational Painting

It is shading, blending, and chiaroscuro which lend the flat surface an illusion of depth and perspective.

Non representational

Black and white photography that presents a unique character. It has artistic photography and has a meaning.

Reportage

Value to present sad emotions.

High-key

Aspect of value wherein it depicts all the light values in a picture.

Low-key

Aspect of value wherein it depicts all the dark values in a picture.

Texture

How objects and surfaces feel, and in most associated with tactility. It is created when several lines combine (ex. smooth, velvety, gritty, coarse). They convey meaning and express ideas and feelings.

Collage

Actual objects glued on a surface.

Imelda Cajipe Endaya

They integrate sawali panes, crocheted lace, fabrics and rope in creating artworks wtih social and political themes.

Shape

Forms that are two dimensional or three dimensional.

2D

Exists as planes having length and width.

3D

Possesses length, width, volume.

Rectilinear

Geometric shapes, straight edges.

Curvilinear

Geometric shapes with curves.

Biomorphic

Includes a variety of non-specific shapes.

Local textiles

Stylized and abstract

Binakol

Geometric shapes with math percision achieving an illusionistic effect.

Positive

Aspect of shape wherein it refers to the solid forms in a design.

Negative

Aspect of shape wherein it refers to the space around the positive shape.

Composition in Space

It involves the relationship between figures and elements. It is how the elements are organized and composed according to principles of organization, including balance, proportion, rhythm, unity in variety, dominance, and subordination.

Bonifacio Monument , UP Oblation, Bahay Kubo, Ifugao Houses

Examples of Composition in Space in architecture.

Free Invention

No distinct shapes at all.

Pangalay dance and ballet

Examples of Composition in Space in dance.

Movement

May occur in 2D design as rhythm or through the recurrence of motifs, their alternation or progression unfolding in a series. It related to line and the direction of the eye.

Nine Muses

Example of Movement in sculpture.

Lines, color, value, texture, shape, composition in space, movement

The 7 elements of art.