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Task 6

Question:

Using points and examples from the lecture, explain the importance of the visual elements in painting.

Listening Text:

In order for art to communicate to appeal to the emotions or the intellect, it has to combine various visual elements to express meaning or emotion. It’s really the visual components of the work, things like color, texture, shape, lines, and how these elements work together that tell us something about the work. Artists combine and manipulate these visual elements to express a message or to create a mood.

Think about how a painter might use color for example. You all know from experience that different colors appeal in different ways to the senses and can convey different meanings. An artist chooses certain colors to evoke particular mood and make powerful statements. The color red, for example, is a strong color and can conjure up strong emotions, such as extreme joy or excitement or even anger. Blue, on the other hand, is considered a cool color. Blue colors tend to have a calming effect on viewers.

Another visual element important to art is texture. By texture I mean the surface quality or feel of the work, its smoothness or roughness or softness. Now of course in some types of art the texture is physical it can actually be touched by the fingers. But in painting for example, texture can be visual. The way an artist paints certain areas of the painting can create the illusion of texture, an object’s smoothness or roughness or softness. A rough texture can evoke stronger emotions and strength while a smooth texture is more calming and less emotional.

As I said earlier, artists often combine the elements to convey a message about the work. Take a painting that, say, uses a lot of strong colors like reds and oranges, and, and uses brush strokes that a broad wide sweeping brush strokes that suggest rough texture. Well, these elements together can convey a wilder, more chaotic emotion in a viewer than, more than, say, a painting with tiny smooth brush strokes and soft and pale colors. Artists use these visual effects and senses they arouse to give meaning to their work. (344)

Sample Answer:

The professor talks about visual elements in painting. One important element is color. Different colors arouse different moods. For example, red is a strong color and can evoke strong emotions, such as extreme joy or anger, while blue is a cool color and can help viewers calm down. Another element is texture, the quality or feel of the work. In painting, texture is visual instead of physical. A rough texture can evoke stronger emotions while a smooth texture is less emotional. Artists often combine the use of colors and texture. For example, strong colors like reds and oranges and broad sweeping brush strokes can convey a wilder, more chaotic emotion then tiny smooth brush strokes and soft colors.