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ART chapter
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the Principles of design are a natural part of perception. | Unity & variety Balance Emphasis & subordination Proportion & scale Rhythm |
| Unity | a sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole |
| Variety | difference, which provides interest |
| What coexists in Art? | Unity and Variety |
| MEMORY OF OCEANIA | Henri Matisse |
| Thomas Hart Benton | Pollacks Mentor |
| Lee Krasner | Pollacks wife..she never took his last name |
| Conceptual Unity | asks the viewer to interpret the piece of art. |
| Joseph Cornell | THE HOTEL EDEN (assemblage where unlike objects & images are enclosed in a shape – the artists is asking the viewer to accept them as a whole |
| Balance | ways in which elements of a piece are arranged |
| Visual Weight | the apparent “heaviness” or “lightness” of the forms arranged in a composition. |
| EX of Visual weight | RED CUBE New York City by Isamu Noguchi |
| Symmetircal Weight | the implied center of gravity is the vertical axis, an imaginary line drawn down the center of the composition. aka = “formal balance” |
| Assymetrical Weight | elements placed unevenly in a piece, but they work together to form harmony aka = “informal balance” |
| emphasis | means that your attention is drawn to a certain area or object**SIZE & PLACEMENT can be used to create emphasis.** |
| subordination | means areas are made less interesting to make the areas of interest stand out. |
| Scale | means size in relation to a standard “normal” size.**PLANTOIR by Claes Oldenburg & Bruggen 23’11 |
| proportion | refers to size relationships between parts of the whole |
| heirarchal scale | most important is larger or placed in the middle of a composition |