In my first short essay, I mentioned that for me, visual art is a form of language. How can visual art communicates as a language to the viewers? In general, language is a form of written texts such as alphabets or specific symbols and sound to communicate to people. An example of alphabets is English alphabets that comprise of 5 vowels and 21 letters of consonants. These are building blocks for us to write sentences that communicate our thoughts and ideas for us to read and understand. In a similar fashion, visual art’s building block consists of colour, form, line, texture, space, shape and value. These are classified as elements of art. The elements of art enable artists to create images or form to communicate their thoughts and ideas. To further elaborate visual art’s building blocks, let’s take a look at the painting below: