chapter 5

• Harmony


  Essential to beauty
• Variety


  The spice of life and of art
• Balance


  Elements must be arranged so a feeling of balance and equilibrium exists between them
• Formal balance


  • Also called symmetrical balance
  • Achieved by making both sides exactly alike
• Informal or asymmetrical balance


  • Also sometimes called occult balance
  • More difficult to achieve than formal balance, however, the results are more interesting
• Proportion


  Determined by a comparison of the size of different parts of an object or of an arrangement
• Harmonious proportion


  Achieved when one part of an object does not seem too big or too small for the other parts
• Rhythm


  Achieved by the regular or harmonious recurrence of lines, forms and colors
• Emphasis


  • Part easily catches our attention and interest while other parts are not noticed at all
  • The quality of design is called emphasis or subordination
  • Produced by the design or form that catches our attention while the rest are subordinate
  • Important in art forms
• Color


  Used to create emphasis
• Emphasis is important because it relieves monotony