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The Principles of Design

The Principles of Design. Balance. Balance : the distribution of visual weight in a work of art. The visual equilibrium of the elements causes the total image to appear balanced. Balance.

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The Principles of Design

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  1. The Principles of Design

  2. Balance • Balance: the distribution of visual weight in a work of art. • The visual equilibrium of the elements causes the total image to appear balanced.

  3. Balance • Symmetrical balance: When elements on both sides of a central vertical line appear to be about equal in shape, weight, value, and color. Also called: formal or classical balance. • Asymmetrical balance: two sides that are different, but yet are in visual balance. Ex. A large 3-figure shape of people sitting quietly is balanced by smaller, but much more active birds. Also called informal balance.

  4. Balance • Value balance: Ex. A small light value shape seems to balance a large middle value shape. • Radial balance: when all the elements radiate out from a central point. A grapefruit cut in half is a good example. • All over pattern is another form of balance, since the same visual weight, texture, and colors are evenly distributed. Ex. Fabric.

  5. Balance

  6. Movement • Visual movement is used to direct viewers through their work, often to focal areas • Can be directed along lines, edges, shapes, and colors within the works, but moves the eye most easily on paths of equal value

  7. Movement • Visual passage or linkage: the artist moves our eyes through a painting using dark or light values • Our eyes move into a painting if the work contains 1-point perspective.

  8. Movement • Elongated shapes cause our eyes to move along them • A strong center of interest will cause our eyes to follow it like a magnet. • Linear movement: can be direct (straight) or irregular (curvilinear).

  9. Movement • Our eyes follow lines and edges in sculpture, architecture, and paintings, as well as in nature. • Closure: our eyes move across a surface and interruptions may occur. Our eye skips across the interruptions.

  10. Movement Richard Earl Thompson Claire Ruby

  11. Rhythm • Rhythm: the repetition of visual movement of the elements—colors, shapes, lines, values, forms, spaces, and textures. • Variety is essential to keep rhythm exciting and active, and to avoid monotony.

  12. Rhythm • Movement and rhythm work together to create the visual equivalent of a musical beat. • Regular Rhythm: the repetition of elements that are the same or nearly the same in regular sequences.

  13. Rhythm • Irregular Rhythms: might repeat throughout a painting without any exact duplication—unevenly spaced. • Staccato rhythms: repetitions that are abrupt and that change frequently. They often seem to be short bursts of energy in a painting.

  14. Rhythm • Progressive rhythms: those in which the elements change sizes as they progress or move across space. • In architecture, rhythmic sequences of windows, columns and other architectural details are used to unify large surfaces.

  15. Rhythm

  16. Contrast • Contrast: differences in values, colors, textures, shapes, and other elements. • Creates visual excitement and adds interest to the work.

  17. Contrast • Value contrast: when black is next to white, and when light values from one end of the gray scale are next to dark values from the other end. • Simultaneous contrast: occurs when 2 pure complementary colors are placed side by side. Each will appear brighter.

  18. Contrast • Contrast in color intensity: occurs when a pure, fully intense color is next to a muted or grayed color mixture. The pure color’s strength and intensity seem to cause it to glow. • Shape contrast: occurs when organic shapes are placed in a geometric environment and vice versa.

  19. Contrast • Temperature contrast: the contrast of warm and cool colors. • Textural contrast: when artists use heavy textures to contrast with smoother areas in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, or any of the crafts. Textural contrasts are abundant in nature.

  20. Contrast

  21. Emphasis • Emphasis: used by artists to create dominance and focus in their work. • They can emphasize color, value, shapes, or other art elements to achieve dominance.

  22. Emphasis • Focal areas (centers of interest): used by artists to place emphasis on the most important aspect of a work. • Best location for focal areas is a location off center about 1/3 from either side of the piece of paper and 1/3 from top or bottom

  23. Emphasis • Color dominance: a way of emphasizing a color or color family in a painting. • Visual emphasis: can be achieved by having the strongest light and dark value contrasts in a painting located in a desirable place.

  24. Emphasis • Visual emphasis is enhanced when value passages (light or dark movements) lead to a focal area. • In nature, emphasis might be felt when elements are isolated—emphasis is usually on the element that is different • Using shape contrast can develop visual emphasis.

  25. Emphasis 4 Hot Spots

  26. Pattern • Pattern uses the art elements in planned or random repetitions to enhance surfaces of paintings or sculptures. • Often occur in nature, and artists use similar repeated motifs to create pattern in their work. • Increases visual excitement by enriching surface interest.

  27. Pattern • Regular or planned patterns: repeated with accuracy (lines, shapes, swirls, or other design elements). Ex. Fabrics • Architects use planned patterns to create surface interest on buildings. • In nature: repeated leaves, flowers, grass, shells, and many others.

  28. Pattern • Radial patterns: fruits and vegetables can be noticed when cut in half. • Used to organize surface elements. Ex. A regular pattern of squares is made more interesting with an irregular pattern of another shape within them.

  29. Pattern • Patterns made of repeated lines, shapes, colors, or texture are used in: jewelry, ceramics, weavings, wall coverings, fabrics, carpets, and flooring.

  30. Pattern

  31. Unity • Visual unity: one of the most important aspects of well designed art and is planned by the artist. • Provides the cohesive quality that makes an artwork feel complete and finished. • When all the elements look as though they belong, the artist has achieved unity

  32. Unity • Variety: essential to keep art from being monotonous (boring). Horizontal layers of paint or collage create unity, but a different element, color, shape, line, and could provide variety. • Visual unity can be developed by clustering elements or by placing them close together (proximity).

  33. Unity • Graphic designers use vertical and horizontal contour continuation to organize complex materials. • When edges of visual elements are lined up, a sense of unity is felt. • Overall surface treatments create very strong sense of unity.

  34. Unity • Overall intense colors, repeated shapes, consistently hard edges, and clustering create a strong sense of unity. • Dominant color will unify a painting. So will repeated textures, shapes, edges, and consistent painting techniques.

  35. Unity • **All of the principles work together to create unity and a successful design.

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