1. ART & ARCHITECTURE By
M. Ahmed Ismail

2. Brief Definitions Art: the products of human creativity
Art: Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way to affect the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings.
Architecture: the discipline dealing with the principles of design, construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.

3. All visual design may be reduced to seven elements,
factors, or dimensions. These elements are line, direction,
shape, size, texture, value, and color. These elements are the
building blocks of art structure. They are the alphabet or scale
of graphic expression. When an artist organizes these elements
he creates form, which is design or composition. Art is manmade order, that is, structure or form.
In representational art the elements of line, shape, texture,
and color are used to describe, depict, or illustrate solid objects
in three-dimensional space. The effect of the subject matter of
a picture relies on its appeal to reason, that is, upon our ability
to recognize or perceive its meaning. Representational art is a
convention. Although habit, training, and education have prepared

4. All visual design may reduced to seven elements
Elements of Design
All visual design may reduced to seven elements
Line
Direction
Shape
Size
Texture
Value
Color

5. Elements of Design
Line

6. Elements of Design
Direction