HarmonIntroDesignPrinciples

March 20^th, 2015

HUA101

                                                Online Assignment #2

1.      1.Describe several ways that artists unify their artwork. Find an example and describe how it is unified.

·         According to the lecture HarmonIntroDesignPrinciples on YouTube, Unity is the appearance or condition of oneness. Artists unify their artwork in many different ways. They use repetition of sizes, shapes and colors to unify their art.

  This artwork called “Tunes” by Mariah Dimalalvan, shows unity because of the repetition of warm colors in the background. It also shows unity by the different shapes of the music notes like the red one is smaller so it appears to be further back (the illusion of depth) as oppose to the yellow one being bigger looking like its closer to the viewer. Lastly, the theme of the artwork is based on music and you can see that due to the repetition of the musical notes and instruments.

2.    2.  Describe how an artist creates asymmetrical balance- post an artwork of your choice and explain how it is balanced asymmetrically.

·         Asymmetrical balance is when the left and right side of the artwork is not the same. It has visual weights of color and form, as stated in the lecture online. The artist will use two different types of forms for the artwork which is a large form and a small form. Large forms are heavier and grabs your attention more than a small form. What the form does is gather visual weight as it gets to the edges of the painting. For example, like the holy painting from the lecture, one side of the painting was colorful being the heavier side and the other side was dark showing the uneven balance.

   In this piece of artwork called “Asymmetry in Art” by Wassily Kandinsky, you can see that the right side of the art is the heavier side because it has more color compared to the other side that uses the same color scheme but much less and lighter. Also, the left side has a big image but the right side has more images and they are broken apart.

3.      3.How can scale change the meaning of an artwork? Use a visual example of your choice as an example and explain how the meaning is changed by scale.

·         Scale is the size relation of one thing to the other and it is one of the first important decision an artist makes when planning an art work. Scale can change the meaning of an artwork by being distorted, changing the visual effect. It shows the control of the artwork on the viewer. For example, like the artwork with old ladies at the end of the lecture, they looked vulnerable by their reduced scale as opposed to the giant piece of art where the boy was holding his knees where the hairs on his legs actually looked real.

  This artwork’s meaning is changed by scale because the distortion makes it look like the people in the picture are running from this big unknown figure.