Formal
Elements are a set of elements that when used together or in various
combinations create a specific form of artwork. These consist in the list
below:
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Piet Mondrian – Line over Form
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LINE
Lines can be vertical, horizontal,
diagonal or curved these consist in in the forms of various objects in a
painting for example, they are the basic drawing produced to show the shape of
any object.
SHAPE
These can be either natural and man made
shapes like for example squares, hexagons, polygons or other combined
variations and they cab also be in the form of organic shape which tend to be
more natural rather than man made geometrical shapes.
FORM
Three-dimensional shapes are forms,
objects like sculptures, pottery, furniture work and animations fall under the
category of form rather than that of shape since they are three-dimensional.
TONE
Every color has a series of lightness and
darkness by the way light hits the object, this is referred to as Tone. This is
just whenever a specific painting or image is requested to be in a particular
mood, increasing or decreasing it adjusts the tone accordingly.
TEXTURE
The surface on an object can have various
different kinds of texture; some of them can be sensed just by looking at them,
while others must be felt by touch. There are two different categories for
texture, these are actual texture which dose real exist and it can be felt, and
than there is the visual texture which is created by the artist to give the
impression of the desired texture.
PATTERN
A series of
lines, shapes of even color which is represented in the same manner is refereed
to as a pattern, these are both man made and are also found in nature.
COLOR
The primary colors which are red, yellow
and blue cannot be achieved by mixing any of the other colors therefore their
name as primary colors, while the secondary colors are all those different
variations which are obtain by the mixing of the primary colors.
Hardley
Art, 2012. The Formal Elements in Art. [online] Available at:
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