Chapter 2 Part 2 Principles of Composition Principles

Chapter 2 Part 2 / Principles of Composition

Principles of Composition -Balance -Rhythm -Proportion and Scale -Emphasis -Unity and Variety

Balance

Balance symmetrical Leonardo Da Vinci The Last Supper Fresco 1495 -1498 A wall of the Refectory, Santa Mariadelle Grazie, Milan, Italy

Balance symmetrical Angkor Wat Central Temple Complex Cambodia c. 1113 - 1150 CE

Balance Asymmetrical Joan Miró The Birth of the World Oil on canvas 1925

Balance Asymmetrical Marisol The Family Painted wood & other materials in 3 sections 1962

Balance Asymmetrical Mark Rothko Blue, Orange, Red Oil on canvas 1961

Rhythm . . . . …

Rythm Churning of the Ocean of Milk Carved stone Angkor Wat, Cambodic 1113 - 1150 CE

Rhythm Magdalena Abakanowicz Backs 1976 -1982 Burlap and glue 80 pieces

Rhythm Islamic Mosque in Cordoba, Spain

Proportion and Scale

Proportion Leonardo Da Vinci Proportions of the Human Figure (‘Vetruvius Man’) Venus of Willendorf Stone 25, 000 BCE Michelangelo Buonarroti David , 1504 13’ high http: //library. thinkquest. org/27890/applications 6. html

Scale Subverted René Magritte Personal Values 1952 Oil on canvas 31 5/8” x 39 1/2”

Scale Hierarchical Jan Van Eyck Madonna in the Church c. 1437 Oil on Panel

Proportion and Scale Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen The Binocular Entrance to the Chiat Building Venisce, CA 1985 - 91 & Frank Gehry

Proportion and Scale Claes Oldenburg Bat c. 1977 Chicago, IL

Proportion and Scale Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen Dropped Bowl with Scattered Slices and Peels 1990 Steel, reinforced concrete, fiber-reinforced plastic; painted with polyurethane enamel; stainless steel Seventeen parts 16 ft. 9 in. x 91 ft. x 105 ft. Metro Dade Open Space Park, Miami

Proportion Classical Greek design principle The Golden Rectangle A Root 5 Rectangle (based on the Golden Mean Length = √ 5 x height ) The Golden Mean B C

Proportion Michelangelo Thje Fall of Man and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden 1508 -1512 Fresco on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, Rome, Italy Based on the root 5 rectangle

Proportion Classical Greek principle Golden Rectangle Spiral Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty Great Salt Lake, UT Nautilus 1970

Emphasis

Emphasis [ and Focal Point ] Richard Hamilton My Marilyn 1966 Silkscreen

Emphasis [ and Focal Point ] Jasper Johns Between the Clock and the Bed Encaustic on canvas 6’ x 10 1/2’ 1981

* Emphasis and Focal Point - Radial Chuck Close Lucas II 1987 Oil on canvas

Unity and Variety

Unity Thomas Hart Benton Palisades 1919 -1924 Oil

Unity and Variety Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase Oil on canvas 1912

Exercise 3

Edward Hopper Nighthawks 1942 Oil on canvas 30” x 60”

Claude Monet Haystack at Sunset Near Giverny Oil on canvas 28” x 36” 1891

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