Balance
The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work.
• Symmetrical – When one side mirrors the other side • Asymmetrical – When one side does not reflect the other side. • Radial – When turn around a central point
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more specifically… Balance refers to the weight of objects, and their placement in relation to each other. It’s a sense of stability you might feel from elements in alignment. This can take three forms: • Symmetrical balance refers to the exact mirroring of objects across an axis (i.e. an invisible line on the page). • Asymmetrical balance is the opposite of this – when objects do not mirror each other perfectly, shifting the balance to one side or the other of the axis. This is often done to highlight an object in relation to another. • Radial balance is when objects are distributed all around a central point. Vocabulary: Shifting: (moving) spostando
When a design displays symmetrical balance it is exactly the same on both sides. If you drew a line through the centre of the design , one side would be the mirror image of the other. Symmetrical balance is sometimes known as bilateral, two-sided, or a formal balance.
Oriental Poppi es , 1928 by Georg ia O'Keeffe University of Minnesota Art Museum, Minneapolis
Symmetrical
Leonardo da Vinci (1495 circa) Cenacolo, the last supper - In Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milano -
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Pietro Perugino, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, 1481– 1482 Sistine (Chapel, Vatican City, Rome)
mabue, Santa Trinita Madonna, 1280-90 (Firenze)
American 19th Century, Cutout of Animals, second quarter 19th century (National Gallery)
Asymmetrical balance is more complex than symmetrical balance. It often contrasts elements that at first glance may not seem to be balanced. For example, an artist may place a large shape on one side of a design and a group of smaller shapes on the other. Or, he or she may balance a small area of colour with a large, dull one. In of these examples, the two sides will appear to have the same “visual weight.�
Vocabulary: dull: opaca
Asymmetrical
James McNeill Whistler, Portrait of Artist’s Mother, Musée
Asymmetrical
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (Caravaggio) Sanssouci Picture Gallery, Germany.
Dancers Practicing at the Barre,1877 Edgar Degas French (Metropolitan Museum NY)
Asymmetrical
Georges Seurat - A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, France — 1884 (Art institute Chicago)
AsyCmmetrical
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, oil on canvas, 84.1 x 152.4 cm / 33-1/8 x 60 inches (Art Institute of Chicago).
If the parts of a design turn around a central point, the design has a radial balance. Design based on radial balance are somewhat similar to those that use symmetrical balance: they are generally orderly and repetitious, and one side may be much like the other.
RADIAL BALANCE
Charger of Charles II in the Boscobel Oak England, circa 1685
Interior of the rose at Strasbourg Cathedral
RADIAL BALANCE
Thangka painting of Manjuvajra mandala
Escher