where have you heard this word before? what are some examples you can think of? what is balance?
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•Where have you heard this word before?
•What are some examples you can think of?
•What is Balance?
a Teeter-totter or a scale Is Balanced when Weight is even on both sides…
A BaLance Beam forces you to keep your weight even so you
don’t fall off.
Balance Means:
KEEPINGWEIGHT
EVEN
In Art There is an Idea Called “VISUAL WEIGHT”.
The more “visual weight” something has, the more it ‘attracts’ your eye.
This means you notice it more than other things in the picture.
DO YOU SEE VISUAL WEIGHT IN THESE PICTURES?
Visual Weight can be created using:
Colour Empty Spaces
SizeContrast
Variety
movement
For example: Dark colors ‘weigh’ more visually than light colors.
Visual Balance is like physical Balance
because it is about “keeping weight even”,
only this time it means
visual weight!
There are several ways to create
VISUAL BALANCE :
Symmetrical BalanceBoth sides of an imaginary line are the same: like looking in a mirror .
Asymmetrical BalanceEach side of the imaginary line is different
but each has the same visual weight.
Elements radiate out from the center creating a focal point.
Radial Balance
Crystallographic BalanceThere is the same visual weight spread out over the entire area - like in a
pattern.
VISUAL BALANCE is the even use of
visual weight.By carefully placing the
different parts of a picture we can make a Balanced composition.
DO YOU THINK THE FOLLOWING ARTWORKS ARE BALANCED?…
Chinese Paper CuttingDouble Happiness, Jiao Brothers
Jackson Pollock – Cathedral (1947)
Rose Window - Susan Wagner
Composition VIII - Wassily Kandinsky (1923)
Can you find different examples of BalAnce and symmetry in this room?
SymmetricalBalance
AsymmetricalBalance
RadialBalance
CrystallographicBalance
Remember the four kinds of balance: