Principles of Art and Design

Guides that govern or describe how artist organise the elements of art in an art work, refer to:

• Elements of art

• Crafts

• Principles of art

• Balance

Principles of design are as follows

• Form, shape, colour, line, texture, and value tone

• Proportions, balance, variety\contrast, rhythm, unity\harmony, movement, perspective

........... is concerned with equalizing visual forces, or elements in a work of art.

Alternating rhythm is created by repeating two or more of the elements of visual art to produce an alternating pattern. An example of such patterns:

• Red-blue,green-orange

• Green, green,green

• Red-blue,red-blue

The above image is an example of:

• Variety\contrast

• Unity\harmony

................ is created through the arrangement of objects in 2-dimensional space to look like they appear in real life.

• Shape

• Perspective

• Design

• Movement

There are two types of perspective linear and aerial/ atmospheric. What is the different between linear and aerial perspective?

• Linear perspective in expressed on a line while aerial perspective is concerns with art in the air.

• Linear perspective refers to the representation on a flat surface where images appear smaller as their distance from the observers increases while areial perspective is the technique of creating an illusion of depth by depicting distant objects as paler, less detail, and useually bluer the near objects.

The repetition of marks, colors, or shapes.

• Movement

• Rhythm

• Contrast

• Pattern

The way your eye travels through a piece of art.

• Rhythm

• Movement

• Pattern

• Unity

Principle of design concerned with th size relationship of one part to another or to the whole is:

• Emphasis

• Batik

• Perspective

• Proportions