Elements
This art element is a continuous mark made on a surface — it can be thick, thin, curved, or jagged.
This principle makes one area stand out as the focal point.
What is Emphasis?
This element can be geometric or organic and is always two-dimensional.
What is Shape?
This principle helps artists make one part of an artwork stand out more than the rest — it’s often called the focal point.
What is emphasis?
These are the visual, sensory, and emotional qualities created by the artist.
What are Aesthetic Qualities?
This element adds light and dark values to create depth, contrast, and mood.
What is Tone?
Artists use this principle to repeat elements like shapes, lines, or colours to create order and flow.
What is repetition (or pattern)?
This element deals with how light is reflected off surfaces and can create harmony or contrast.
What is Colour?
The repetition of visual elements at regular or irregular intervals creates this sense of tempo.
What is rhythm?
This term describes how artists visually communicate ideas and emotions.
What is visual language?
This element refers to the surface quality of an object — it can be rough, smooth, or bumpy.
What is Texture?
This principle is about the even or uneven distribution of visual weight in an artwork.
What is Balance?
This element of art refers to the area around, above, or within objects in an artwork.
What is Space?
This principle creates visual movement and guides the viewer’s eye through an artwork.
What is movement?
This is the amount of light that reaches the camera sensor or film — it’s controlled by aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
What is exposure?
This element refers to three-dimensional qualities that have height, width, and depth.
What is Form?
This principle refers to the relative size of objects or parts of a composition.
What is Proportion?
Colours opposite each other on the colour wheel, like red and green, are known as this type of colour combination.
What are complementary colours?
Artists use this principle to create differences between elements like light and dark or smooth and rough.
What is contrast?
This setting determines how long your camera’s shutter stays open, affecting motion blur in a photo.
What is shutter speed?
Name the nine art elements listed in the VCE Study Design.
What is line, colour, tone, texture, shape, form, sound, light, and time?
This principle creates a sense of harmony when all parts of an artwork feel connected.
What is Unity?
A colour scheme that uses colours next to each other on the colour wheel, like blue, blue-green, and green, is called this.
What are analogous colours?
Artists can use this principle to combine differences and similarities for visual interest.
What is variety?
When you increase this, your photos will be brighter, but you may also introduce more noise or grain.
What is ISO?