The Visual Vocabulary

What two things make up the Visual Vocabulary?

• Elements and Principles of Art
• Shapes and Lines
• Words and Pictures

What are the "building blocks" the artist has to work with to express ideas?

• Elements of Art
• Principles of Design

A continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point.

• Shape
• Line

An area set off by one or more of the other visual elements.

• Shape
• Form

An object with three dimensions.

• Form
• Shape

Lightness and Darkness

• Value
• Space

The way something feels or looks like it might feel when touched.

• Texture
• Space

Has three distinctions...hue, intensity, and value

• Color
• Texture

Represents the various ways the artist uses the elements.

• Principles of Design
• Elements of Art

A way of combining stability to a work of art.

• Balance
• Unity