Principles of Design

Draw an example of a pattern.

What are the principles of design?

• Recipe instructions.

• Building blocks to any artwork

• Recipe ingredients.

• Rules to arrange the elements of art into a composition

What was the name of the compositional technique used in Hokusai's artwork?

• Golden Ratio

• Pyramid

• Rule of Thirds

• Harmonious Triangles

What is movement in an artwork?

• The speed at which the artwork was made.

• The way your heart races when viewing an emotional artwork.

• The way your eye moves around an artwork or composition.

Which type of balance does this artwork have?

• Symmetrical

• Asymmetrical

What is another term for unity?

• Balance

• Oneness

• Harmony

• Whole

What does variety do in an artwork?

• It adds visual textures.

• It adds interest.

• It moves the eye around.

• It focuses the viewer on one area.

Take a guess at what the Aboriginal Art (artwork on the right) is doing with its repetition.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Scale

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(b) Proportion

• Parts of the face

• Comparing size of two separate objects.

• Shows size relationships of different things.

• Comparing size of an object in relation to parts of the whole

What is emphasized in this artwork?

• The women in the background shielding children

• The swords and the hands reaching for them.

• The archways behind everyone

• The men's feet.