The Elements of Visual Arts
The visual and tactile surface characteristics that are added to a work of art
What is texture?
The speed of music
What is tempo?
The energy used to perform an action
What is energy?
Seperate parts working together in composition
What is unity?
Aesthetic objects that serve utilitarian purposes
What is functional art?
The emptiness or area between, around, above, below, or within an object
What is space?
The arrangement of notes, rest (silences), and intestensity of a songs progression
What is rhythm?
The space in which a dancers body moves through
What is space?
Difference
What is contrast?
building blocks of an artwork
What is artistic elements?
The element of art made up of three properties: hue, value, and intensity
What is a color?
The verticalization of pitch, thought of as the art of combining pitches into cords
What is harmony?
The mobile figure or shape, felt by a dancer, seen by others
What is body?
The distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, textures, and space
What is balance?
Works done where the imagination and the hand of the maker is evident
What is craft?
The element of art defined by a point in moving space. May be two-or-three dimensional, descriptive, implied, or abstract
What is a line?
Perpetual property of sound that allows their ordering on a frequency related scale
What is pitch?
movement in relation to the music, tempo, and rhythm
What is time?
The visual satisfaction effect of combining similar or related elements
What is Harmony?
An art in which the concepts or ideas involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns
What is artwork?
The element of art that is two dimensional, flat, or limited to height and width
What is a shape?
The linear/horizontal presentation of pitch
What is melody?
Small movements like facial expression or gestures, as well as larger movements like lifts carries or catches
What is action(s)?
The movement within a piece of art that helps the eye travel through the piece to a point of focus
What is Rhythm?
Art should not be judged on its relationship to social, political, or moral values, but purely for its formal and aesthetic qualities
What is art for art's sake?