I always knew that a picture could be balanced or put off balance with size, shape, placement, and line but I never knew that about texture. In a painting, you could put balance into a a wool sweater by making it look fluffy or a ckae by applying the paint the same way you’d frost a cake.
I find it interesting how balance in a painting can be so important and how it could be created through so many different ways, like value, color, texture, pattern, and placement. The reading says that an unbalanced design leaves the viewer with a sense of uneasiness but that the artist may have wanted that response from the viewer. I think that it’s cool how balance itself could provoke such a response from the viewer. I also found it interesting not only on how people are able to create balance through paintings, architecture or pictures, but also how they are able to find it in nature.
Wow. I never thought of balancing the texture, pattern, color, and asymmetry. I have been always use objects balance and symmetrical balance in my works but without balancing other things. I was also surprise that sometimes unbalanced pictures can create tension because unbalanced pictures don’t make my eyes feel comfortable. I also interested in the balance in nature. I love the picture B on page 97 because the bush at the center looks like it was created by a mirror.
Anthony Larussa said, on April 26, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Before this class I never really looked at how a painting can change with shapes or colors but now when I look at paintings I notice how all of this balances out the painting. I have also seen the way motion plays a big part in art. Now that we are learning about texture I’m interested in see how it changes a painting first hand.
An artist can purposely create balance in a painting or purposely create imbalance. Visual emphasis makes balance as well as visual weight. Balance is an essential part of your composition, it creates emphasis and can control how your eye moves across the picture plane.
Balance. When I think of balance, it usually means of equal weight on two or more different sides. In art, balance is usually portrayed by the contrasts, and colors, and shadows, and highlights, which really makes things stand out. If there was too much on a particular area, then it would be considered “heavy.” Amazing how a simple element can make so much of an impact on a piece.
I always thought that balance was when there are two equal weight on both size, but as I read the reading I discovered that balance can be in many forms such as colors, contrasts,texture(etc.). It so interesting to finally look at a painting and understand how the artist uses balance in the composition to either move the viewer’s eyes to a certain part of the piece or to even provoke a feeling.
Wilfred Caidoy said, on April 27, 2010 at 11:09 pm
The reading was interesting. A few of the principles explained in the reading were things I was some what subconsciously aware of, but could not definitely understand. Like how balance can be manipulated to show stability and tension.
The reading gave me a new way to look at art. I never considered that artwork can balance or imbalance out horizontally or vertically. The pitcher example by William Bailey is interesting. I did not see how the picture could balance out at first because I was looking at the white handle and the cut off part of the pitcher, but then through the description I saw that the shadow was actually centered in the picture.
The idea of asymmetrical balance still eludes me. I can see it sometimes like in Ham Steinbach’s Supremely Black where the colors balance the disproportionate amount of items out. But I can’t see it in the angel painting.
Melissa Arguera said, on April 28, 2010 at 10:00 pm
The reading made me very aware of what balance really means in paintings. Before I used to think of balance as just two equal sides but according to the reading balance can be created in many ways. using color, value and even texture. I did not know texture can be used to balance out the painting. I shall keep that in mind when I do my collage for my painting.
Before reading this, I pay little or no attention in the balance of the piece, so sometime i ended up with a piece that is totally out of balance. This reading helped me a lot in how to create the balance in a piece and it’s very important to do so. I’m interested in the asymmetrical balance or informal balance more because i think it’s fantastic how the artist use something doesn’t seem balance to make it balance in the final piece.
I thought the most interesting information in this reading was how an artist might use imbalance purposefully to make a viewer uneasy, or to emphasize a point.
Reading 6 is from David A. Lauer and Stephen Pentak, Design Basics, on balance, pp90-107. Comments are due by 4/27.
I always knew that a picture could be balanced or put off balance with size, shape, placement, and line but I never knew that about texture. In a painting, you could put balance into a a wool sweater by making it look fluffy or a ckae by applying the paint the same way you’d frost a cake.
I find it interesting how balance in a painting can be so important and how it could be created through so many different ways, like value, color, texture, pattern, and placement. The reading says that an unbalanced design leaves the viewer with a sense of uneasiness but that the artist may have wanted that response from the viewer. I think that it’s cool how balance itself could provoke such a response from the viewer. I also found it interesting not only on how people are able to create balance through paintings, architecture or pictures, but also how they are able to find it in nature.
Wow. I never thought of balancing the texture, pattern, color, and asymmetry. I have been always use objects balance and symmetrical balance in my works but without balancing other things. I was also surprise that sometimes unbalanced pictures can create tension because unbalanced pictures don’t make my eyes feel comfortable. I also interested in the balance in nature. I love the picture B on page 97 because the bush at the center looks like it was created by a mirror.
Before this class I never really looked at how a painting can change with shapes or colors but now when I look at paintings I notice how all of this balances out the painting. I have also seen the way motion plays a big part in art. Now that we are learning about texture I’m interested in see how it changes a painting first hand.
An artist can purposely create balance in a painting or purposely create imbalance. Visual emphasis makes balance as well as visual weight. Balance is an essential part of your composition, it creates emphasis and can control how your eye moves across the picture plane.
Balance. When I think of balance, it usually means of equal weight on two or more different sides. In art, balance is usually portrayed by the contrasts, and colors, and shadows, and highlights, which really makes things stand out. If there was too much on a particular area, then it would be considered “heavy.” Amazing how a simple element can make so much of an impact on a piece.
I always thought that balance was when there are two equal weight on both size, but as I read the reading I discovered that balance can be in many forms such as colors, contrasts,texture(etc.). It so interesting to finally look at a painting and understand how the artist uses balance in the composition to either move the viewer’s eyes to a certain part of the piece or to even provoke a feeling.
The reading was interesting. A few of the principles explained in the reading were things I was some what subconsciously aware of, but could not definitely understand. Like how balance can be manipulated to show stability and tension.
The reading gave me a new way to look at art. I never considered that artwork can balance or imbalance out horizontally or vertically. The pitcher example by William Bailey is interesting. I did not see how the picture could balance out at first because I was looking at the white handle and the cut off part of the pitcher, but then through the description I saw that the shadow was actually centered in the picture.
The idea of asymmetrical balance still eludes me. I can see it sometimes like in Ham Steinbach’s Supremely Black where the colors balance the disproportionate amount of items out. But I can’t see it in the angel painting.
The reading made me very aware of what balance really means in paintings. Before I used to think of balance as just two equal sides but according to the reading balance can be created in many ways. using color, value and even texture. I did not know texture can be used to balance out the painting. I shall keep that in mind when I do my collage for my painting.
Before reading this, I pay little or no attention in the balance of the piece, so sometime i ended up with a piece that is totally out of balance. This reading helped me a lot in how to create the balance in a piece and it’s very important to do so. I’m interested in the asymmetrical balance or informal balance more because i think it’s fantastic how the artist use something doesn’t seem balance to make it balance in the final piece.
I thought the most interesting information in this reading was how an artist might use imbalance purposefully to make a viewer uneasy, or to emphasize a point.