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Unity, Variety, &

Balance

Terms

● Unity- the imposition of order and harmony on design ● Elements- Basic vocabulary of art ● Principles- the grammar to the vocabulary of elements. Contrast, balance, unity, variety, rhythm, emphasis,pattern,scale, proportion, and focal point. ● Composition- design or organization of a work ● Variety- the diversity of different ideas, media, and elements in a work ● Medium- material a work is made of ● Grid- a network of horizontal and vertical lines; in an artwork's composition grid lines are implied. ● Gestalt- complete order and indivisible unity of all aspects of an artwork's design ● Cubism- 20th century art movement that favored a new perspective emphasizing geometric forms. ● Style- Characteristic way in which an artist or group of artists uses visual language to give a work an identifiable form of visual expression. Cubism is an example of a style ● Still life- a scene of inanimate objects ● Renaissance- a period of cultural, economic, and artistic change in Europe from the 14th to 17th century. ● Foreground-Middleground-Background

● Collage- a work of art assembled by gluing materials like paper on a surface. ● Surrealism- an artistic movement/style in the 1920’s and later its work was inspired by dreams and the subconscious. ● Found image or object- an image or object found by an artistic and presented, with little or no alteration, as part of a work or as a finished work of art in itself. ● Motif- a design or color repeated as a unit in a pattern ● Mandala- a sacred diagram of the universe, often involving a square and a circle.

UNITY

Unity is the act of creating order or wholeness

Compositional Unity, organizing all the visual aspects of a work. This type of harmony is not easy to achieve, but appears easy in the final form.

UNITY

Unity is the act of creating order or wholeness

Compositional Unity, organizing all the visual aspects of a work. This type of harmony is not easy to achieve, but appears easy in the final form.

Katsushika Hokusai Oshiokuri hato tsūsen

no zu , print by Hokusai, c. 1805

UNITY

Unity is the act of creating order or wholeness

Compositional Unity, organizing all the visual aspects of a work. This type of harmony is not easy to achieve, but appears easy in the final form.

Katsushika Hokusai Chōshi in Shimosha,

from One Thousand Images of the Sea

Its a correct balance, too little variety and

it becomes monotonous, toomuch

variety, the scene becomes unreadable.

https://youtu.be/sM_z56RdKLs

History of Japanese woodcuts

UNITY

Unity is the act of creating order or wholeness

Compositional Unity, organizing all the visual aspects of a work. This type of harmony is not easy to achieve, but appears easy in the final form.

Suprematist Composition 1915 - Kazimir Malevich

https://youtu.be/yye33DucQvw

https://youtu.be/Lg1b_n9IKUo

Zaha Hadid using Malevich

UNITY

Unity is the act of creating order or wholeness

Conceptual unity- refers to the cohesive expression of ideas within a work of art. Artists bring in their own intentions, experiences, and reactions to their work.

https://youtu.be/1r_CXS7bXtw

Joseph Cornell, Untitled, the hotel eden, 1945.

UNITY

Unity is the act of creating order or wholeness

Gestalt Unity- German word for shape, refers to art in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts

Gestalt Principles

https://youtu.be/nxKcpfFvuf

MC Escher and Water I - 1938 Woodcut

Balance

Objects have physical weight parts of a work can have visual weight or impact. These elements need to be balanced to achieve visual equilibrium.

Symmetrical Balance- if the Parthenon was cut in half, it would have one half look exactly like the other half.

Balance

Objects have physical weight parts of a work can have visual weight or impact. These elements need to be balanced to achieve visual equilibrium.

Asymmetrical Balance- A heavy object can be balanced by several lighter objects on the other side as long as ts the weight on both sides is the same

Zaha Hadid, Malevich's Tektonik London project, 1977: