Friday 10/1/10 Lecture and Reading Summary

Lecture

Subject/Form/Content
Point-line-shape-color-value-space-texture

Organizing Principles
Repetition/Negative
change-focal point


Monotony------Harmony-----------------------Contrast-------Chaos

Repetition, Rhythm, Pattern
Balance-Symmetry(approximate, radial, bilateral)

• Color, size, texture

Scale/Proportion
Gravity

Minimalism
Post-minimalism

dominance
economy


Reading Summary

Form and Visual Ordering
art always has 3 essential components:
Subject, form and content

Principles of organization:
harmony,variety,balance,proportion,dominance,movement, and economy
these principles guide the artist in developing the various elements and creating a sense for space. If works out the sum total =visual unity--a sense of visual oneness.

Principles are not laws but flexible guides to organizing elements

Harmony-pleasing relationship between different sections of a composition
occurs when elements or independent parts have characteristics in common (repeated colors, similar techniques, shared edges...)

Repetition- certain things are repeated or used more than once in a composition
does not require duplication just similarity
depending on how used repetition and rhythm can confer on an artwork both excitement ans harmony

The type of rhythm will depend on how regularly the units are repeated and how similar they seem. (Likeness of their character, direction, type, value, size...)
the creation of rhythm also relies on the repetition of pauses between repeating units.
variances in the negative space/ intervals of silence between the beats helps create the rhythmic pattern

Pattern- any arrangement, design, or organized series of elements, and it may function as the model for some sort of imitation
 involves harmony as established through repetition
Motif- if the basic pattern (model) is repeated numerous times
Allover Pattern- repetition of a motif

Closure- unifies shapes that share an implied group relationship

Transparency
when a shape or image is seen through another, the relating visual devices that create harmony and unite those two areas include the shared area itself, the layers of space they both pass through, and the surface treatment of all images.

Contrast
occurs whenever elements with opposing characteristics are placed in the same area

"aesthetic distance"- or separation from the everyday world
Moments of force- are points of interest that represent moving and directional forces

Approximate symmetry- parts on either side of the imaginary central axis are positioned in the same manner, but they are slightly altered in size, color,number...
Radial balance- the visual forces are distributed around a central point and often radiate from it

Proportion- the ratio of individual parts to one another or to the whole.
scale- used when proportion is related to size and refers to a standard gauge in order to judge the relationship between objects.
The golden mean/golden section- to represent the ideal standard for proportion and balance in life and art.

Dominance

• Isolation

• placement

• Direction

• Scale/proportion

• character

Economy- composing with efficiency-expressing an idea as simply and directly with no arbitrary or excessive use of the elements.
sometimes associated with abstraction


3 dimensional work may be tectonic (close, massive, and simple) with few and limited projections, atectonic (open, to a large degree), with frequent extensive penetrations and thin projections.