Principles of Design Article & Questions
Directions:
***To really complete this assignment you need to use your PJ because you need to see the images provided in the article with the PJ..****
Read the following article and answer these questions:
Success Criteria
***To really complete this assignment you need to use your PJ because you need to see the images provided in the article with the PJ..****
Read the following article and answer these questions:
- Study the artworks in the article (make sure to talk about each one).
- Which uses formal balance?
- Which uses informal balance?
- Which uses radial balance?
- Look at Linder’s Rock Rock:
- How does the artist use of color add variety to the work?
- Which other elements (Remember the Elements of Art from your last PROCESS JOURNAL)are used to add variety?
- Look at Linder’s Rock-Rock & Renoir's Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar
- Which has greater harmony?
- Which elements does the artist use to introduce harmony to the work? (Remember the Elements of Art from your last PROCESS JOURNAL)
- Look at Renoir's Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar
- What has been done to emphasize the face of the young woman?
- Look at all the artworks in the article
- How have the artists used line and shape to move your eyes throughout the works? (Make sure to discuss each piece)
- Look at all the artwork in the article
- Which uses the principle of art rhythm?
- What element is repeated? (Remember the Elements of Art from your last PROCESS JOURNAL)
Success Criteria
- Neat, clean handwriting.
- Complete Sentences and Paragraphs
- Questions are NOT included.
If you want to use a language, knowing the vocabulary is not enough. You must also know how the words go together. You must know the rules of grammar for that language.
The same is true of art. Instead of rules of grammar, the language of art has art has principles. These principles, or guidelines, govern how arts organize the visual elements to create a work of art.
The principles of art include:
Balance:
If you have ever carried a stack of dishes or books, you know the importance of balance. In art, balance is also important. Balance is a principle of art concerned with arranging elements so no one part of a work overpowers, or seems heavier than, any other part. In art, balance is seen or felt by the viewer.
In works of art, three kinds of balance are possible. They are formal balance, informal balance, and radial balance. In works of art with formal or symmetrical balance the two halves are mirror images.
In works with informal, or asymmetrical, balance two unlike elements seem to carry equal weight. For example, a small shape painted bright red will balance several larger items painted in duller reds.
Radial balance occurs when elements or objects in an artwork are positioned around a central point.
Variety:
The same routine day after day can become dull. The same color or shape repeated over and over in an art work can become equally dull. To avoid dullness, artists use the principle of variety in their works. Variety is a principle of art concerned with combining one or more elements to create interest by adding slight changes. By giving a work variety, the artist heightens the visual appeal of the work.
Harmony:
If too little variety can become boring, too much variety can create chaos. Artists avoid chaos in their works by using the principle of harmony. Harmony is a principle of art concerned with blending elements to create a calmer, restful appearance.
Emphasis:
To attract a viewer’s attention to important parts of a work, artists use the principle of emphasis. Emphasis is making an element in a work stand out. Emphasis can be created by contrast or by extreme changes in an element.
Proportion:
Have you ever tasted a food that was so salty you couldn’t eat it? The problem was one of proportion. Proportion is the principle of art concerned with the relationship of one part to another and to the whole.
The principle of proportion is not limited to size. Elements such as color can be used in differing proportions to create emphasis. It is used this way in figure 1-17.
Movement:
You may not have realized it, but when you look at a work of art your eye move from part to part. Artists use the principle of movement to lead the viewer’s eyes throughout the work. Movement is the principle of art used to create the look and feeling of action and to guide a viewer’s eye throughout the work of art.
Rhythm:
Often artists seek to make their works seem active. When they do, they call upon the principle of rhythm. Rhythm is the principle of art concerned with repeating an element to make a work seem active or to suggest vibration. Sometimes to create rhythm, an artist will repeat not just elements but also the exact objects over and over. When this is done, a pattern is formed.
The same is true of art. Instead of rules of grammar, the language of art has art has principles. These principles, or guidelines, govern how arts organize the visual elements to create a work of art.
The principles of art include:
- Balance
- Variety
- Harmony
- Emphasis
- Proportion
- Movement
- Rhythm
Balance:
If you have ever carried a stack of dishes or books, you know the importance of balance. In art, balance is also important. Balance is a principle of art concerned with arranging elements so no one part of a work overpowers, or seems heavier than, any other part. In art, balance is seen or felt by the viewer.
In works of art, three kinds of balance are possible. They are formal balance, informal balance, and radial balance. In works of art with formal or symmetrical balance the two halves are mirror images.
In works with informal, or asymmetrical, balance two unlike elements seem to carry equal weight. For example, a small shape painted bright red will balance several larger items painted in duller reds.
Radial balance occurs when elements or objects in an artwork are positioned around a central point.
Variety:
The same routine day after day can become dull. The same color or shape repeated over and over in an art work can become equally dull. To avoid dullness, artists use the principle of variety in their works. Variety is a principle of art concerned with combining one or more elements to create interest by adding slight changes. By giving a work variety, the artist heightens the visual appeal of the work.
Harmony:
If too little variety can become boring, too much variety can create chaos. Artists avoid chaos in their works by using the principle of harmony. Harmony is a principle of art concerned with blending elements to create a calmer, restful appearance.
Emphasis:
To attract a viewer’s attention to important parts of a work, artists use the principle of emphasis. Emphasis is making an element in a work stand out. Emphasis can be created by contrast or by extreme changes in an element.
Proportion:
Have you ever tasted a food that was so salty you couldn’t eat it? The problem was one of proportion. Proportion is the principle of art concerned with the relationship of one part to another and to the whole.
The principle of proportion is not limited to size. Elements such as color can be used in differing proportions to create emphasis. It is used this way in figure 1-17.
Movement:
You may not have realized it, but when you look at a work of art your eye move from part to part. Artists use the principle of movement to lead the viewer’s eyes throughout the work. Movement is the principle of art used to create the look and feeling of action and to guide a viewer’s eye throughout the work of art.
Rhythm:
Often artists seek to make their works seem active. When they do, they call upon the principle of rhythm. Rhythm is the principle of art concerned with repeating an element to make a work seem active or to suggest vibration. Sometimes to create rhythm, an artist will repeat not just elements but also the exact objects over and over. When this is done, a pattern is formed.