Principles of Design
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 UNITY | occurs when all elements work together to communicate ideas or feelings -proximity, similarity, continuation |
| Proximity | the tendency to see things that are overlapped, touching, or close together as a group |
| Similarity | alike in color, value, texture, shape, or form |
| Continuation | when you examine any visual form, your eyes move. they flow your vision that is directed by lines, edges of shapes, and the arrangement of elements. |
| VARIETY | acheived by introducing differences in the elements in a composition. |
| EMPHASIS | occurs when one element in an artwork or a combination of elements, attracts more attention than anything else in a composition |
| focal point | the place we tend to look first; place where the artist whishes to draw attention |
| placement | a technique used to create emphasis- where the shape or form can be placed to be made dominant |
| contrast | technique to create emphasis- opposits frequently used to make an element of a composition dominant; big difference between something: light vs. dark, small vs. big, horizontal vs. vertical |
| detail | a technique used to create emphasis- extreme details maybe, realism for example. |
| grouping | technique to create emphasis- putting elements together; recognizable forms around abstract ones, all light with one dark. |
| RHYTHM | combined elements to produce movement. created when a specific element is repeated or gradually changes color. |
| repetion | repeating the same element such as a shape of form with little to no variation |
| alternation | repeating two or more elements with an alternating basis. cirlce square, square circle |
| progression | where an elemnt gradually changes its shape, size, position, or color |
| implied movement | by stopping time it implies a relationship to the time and movment. the subject motionless, but maeks your eyes travel |
| sequence | seeing one figure in an overlapping sequence of poses, with slight changes in a logical order *think comic strip |
| optical movement | art that seems to move, but works are static. illusion of movement due to the response of your eyes to the artwork. |
| actual movement | actual movement in the artwork - KINETIC ART |
| BALANCE | occurs when the visual weight of actual work feels equally distributed |
| asymmetrical balance | equally distributed visual weight with figures and objects that are different from the vertical axis |
| symmetrical balance | objects that are equally distributed on either side of a central vertical axis. one side is a mirror image. |
| approximate symmetry | similar to implay a veritcal central axis but varied a little to challenge you to pick out the differences |
| radial balance | repetitive placement of two or more identical or very similar elements branching from the middle out. usually a circle but not always. radial design. |
| PATTERN | repeating line, shape, or other elements to create a recognizable order |
| motif | the repeated element |
| PROPORTION | concerns the size relationship of artwork |
| scale | refers to the size of an object in relation to the size of the other objects around it. |
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