Unit 2 Visual Alphabet What is the visual

Unit 2: Visual Alphabet

¿What is the visual alphabet? Those are the geometrical elements that compose every painting.

1. Basic elements of visual alphabet Point Line Shape Colour Texture

1. The point can built: - Lines. - Forms. - Volumes. - Textures.

Pointillism Seurat´s art

Roy Liechtenstein

The point as a way of expression

The digital point: pixel

2. The line Definition: A thin continuous mark, as that made by a pen, pencil, or brush applied to a surface. A geometric figure formed by a point moving along a fixed direction and the reverse direction.

How many types of lines do you know?

Straight lines: a)Vertical line. communicate a feeling of loftiness and spirituality. b) Horizontal line suggests a feeling of rest or repose c) Diagonal line suggest a feeling of movement or direction. Since objects in a diagonal position are unstable in relation to gravity.

Curved lines: Wavy lines: zigzag lines: Suggest a feeling of mouvement. suggest comfort, safety, familiarity, relaxation. suggest confusion, turbulence, even frenzy, as in the violence of waves in a storm, or the chaos of a tangled thread.

3. The shape. Regular shapes: communicate stability and solidity. Irregular shapes: Communicate mouvement and instability.

5. The colour "Color is the visual effect that is caused by the spectral composition of the light emitted, transmitted, or reflected by objects. "

- Qualities of color: 1. Hue is a quality which is used to identify any color 2. Saturation defines the purity of the color 3. Brightness defines the amount of light energy which is contained within a given color.