Elements of art

[1] The seven most common elements include line, shape, texture, form, space, color and value, with the additions of mark making, and materiality.

[3] Lines are also situational elements, requiring the viewer to have knowledge of the physical world in order to understand their flexibility, rigidity, synthetic nature, or life.

[1] A shape is a two-dimensional design encased by lines to signify its height and width structure, and can have different values of color used within it to make it appear three-dimensional.

[3] Color is present when light strikes an object and is reflected back into the eye, a reaction to a hue arising in the optic nerve.

Space refers to the perspective (distance between and around) and proportion (size) between shapes and objects and how their relationship with the foreground or background is perceived.

[6] Texture is used to describe the surface quality of the work, referencing the types of lines the artist created.

[6] The difference in values is often called contrast, and references the lightest (white) and darkest (black) tones of a work of art, with an infinite number of grey variants in between.