Tuesday, March 20, 2007

composition vocabulary

symmetry/ asymmetry (mirroring)

balance/ instability

continuity/ discontinuity (is there a visual path?)

rhythm (repetitions of shapes)

arhythmic (non repeating)

quadrants (divide the painting into four equal sections)

planes (flat shapes parallel to the picture plane)

movement (flow of motion along a path of continuity)

stagnant (are the objects locked together and immobile?)

dynamism (powerful, dramatic movement)

chairoscuro (extreme separation between light and dark)

horizontal axis

vertical axis

curves (create movement within a painting)

curve sequences (visual paths based on curves)

visual array (a group of forms which seem related, although not in a visual path)

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