128766444 Organization in the Visual Arts

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O RG AN IZATIO N IN TH E

VISUAL ARTS

The visual artsare art forms that create works that are primarilyvisual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture,

printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking and

architecture.


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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

The Principles are concepts used to organizeor arrange the structural elements of design.Again, the way in which these principles are

applied aects the expressive content, or themessage of the work. The principles are:Harmony

alance

!roportion"hythm#mphasis$nity


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%#&'() *makes it easier for an artist toexpress his ideas in such a way that theo+server +ecomes interested in hiswork.

&$-!T$"#*organizes the human oranimal form architecture organizesspace through the arrangement of theparts of the +uilding, +oth interior andexterior, in order to produce a pleasing

and interesting pattern.


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HARM ONY

Harmony in painting is the visuallysatisfying eect of com+ining similar,related elements. eg.ad/acent colours

on the colour wheel, similar shapes etc. 't is essential to +eauty.

REPETITION

"epetition with variation is interesting,without variation repetition can+ecome monotonous.


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1ariety

is said to +e the spice of life and of art.

it may +e achieved +y the diversity ofmaterials used

and slight contrasts in color, texture, shape

and space

arrangements.


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BALANCE

Balance is the concept of visual equilibrium, and relates to ourphysical sense of balance. It is a reconciliation of opposing

forces in a composition that results in visual stability. Most

successful compositions achieve balance in one of two ways:

symmetrically or asymmetrically. Balance in a three

dimensional obect is easy to understand! if balance isn"tachieved, the obect tips over. To understand balance in a two

dimensional composition, we must use our imaginations to

carry this three dimensional analogy forward to the flat

surface.


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Symmetrical balance can +e descri+ed as havinge2ual 3weight3 on e2ual sides of a centrally placed

fulcrum. 't may also +e referred to as formalbalance. 4hen the elements are arranged e2uallyon either side of a central axis, the result isBilateralsymmetry. This axis may +e horizontal orvertical. 't is also possi+le to +uild formal +alance+y arranging elements e2ually around a centralpoint , resulting in radialsymmetry.

There is a variant of symmetrical +alance called

approximate symmetry in which e2uivalent +utnot identical forms are arranged around the fulcrumline.


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Asymmetrical balance, also called informal balance,is more complex and di5cult to envisage. 't involves

placement of o+/ects in a way that will allow o+/ects ofvarying visual weight to +alance one another around afulcrum point. This can +e +est imagined +y envisioning aliteral +alance scale that can represent the visual3weights3 that can +e imagined in a two dimensional

composition. 6or example, it is possi+le to +alance aheavy weight with a cluster of lighter weights on e2ualsides of a fulcrum in a picture, this might +e a cluster ofsmall o+/ects +alanced +y a large o+/ect. 't is also possi+leto imagine o+/ects of e2ual weight +ut dierent mass

7such as a large mass of feathers versus a small mass ofstones8 on e2ual sides of a fulcrum. $ne2ual weights caneven +e +alanced +y shifting the fulcrum point on ourimaginary scale.


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4hether the solution is simple or

complex, some form of +alance can +eidenti9ed in most successfulcompositions. 6or a further discussionof +alance in design see these sites:

&ymmetrical +alanceAsymmetrical +alance


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