Unit 2 Symmetry & Balance

A word used to describe formal balance in which two halves of a balanced composition are identical, mirror images of each other.

• Symmetrical

• Balance

• Formal Balance

• Radial Balance

A dividing line that works like the point of balance in the balance scale.

• Informal Balance

• Symmetrical

• Central Axis

• Balance

A balance of unlike objects

• Balance

• Informal Balance

• Central Axis

• Radial Balance

Occurs when the forces or elements of a design come out from a central point

• Balance

• Formal Balance

• Radial Balance

• Central Axis

The principle of art concerned with equalizing visual forces, or elements, in a work of art

• Radial Balance

• Symmetrical

• Central Axis

• Balance

When equal, or very similar, elements are placed on opposite sides of a central axis

• Formal Balance

• Informal Balance

• Symmetrical

• Radial Balance