Week Seven (Principles of Design Project)
- Oct 10, 2016
- 3 min read
Here is my finished project, an acrylic paining with photographs.
Art Worksheet Chap 4 Principles of Design- Learning Activities Name: Jacob Halls
(1) Complete the worksheet and submit on time. (2) Extra points are possible depending on your excellent efforts.
You can adjust the writing space you need.
State Required Competency/ies
Select 5 terms at the end of the chapter, which are the least familiar to you. (If less than 5 terms are listed at the end, then do all.) Type up the definition (5 points).
Asymmetrical Balance: Various elements of a work are balanced but not symmetrical
Directional Forces: Pathways that the artist embeds in a work for the viewer’s eye to follow
Focal Point: Principle area of emphasis in a work of art; place to which the artist directs the most attention through composition
Format: The shape or proportions of a picture plane
Pattern: Repetitive ordering of design elements
Scale: Size relation of one thing to another
Symmetrical Balance: Near or exact matching of left and right sides of a three-dimensional form or a two-dimensional composition
What are the principles of design covered in this chapter?
(4 points)
Unity and Variety
Balance
Emphasis and Subordination
Directional Forces
Contrast
Repetition and Rhythm
Scale and Proportion
Mini-hands on project: Theme: “What is American Culture?”
Instructions: 1. Apply at least 5 principles of design into your project (5 points).
2. Use any visual elements, media, and techniques to design your project.
3. Describe how you apply the specific principles of design to your project to right hand side of column (at least 100 words, 3 points).
I believe American culture, as a whole, is currently at an extremely low point. We value "celebrities" to such an extent, that one is the GOP candidate for president. Most people could more easily name the Kardashians than can name their own Representatives, and Popular music is mostly just incoherent mumbling. Watching the presidential debates and speeches is embarrassing and I think it represents where our American values and our Culture as a whole is at right now. For my project, I’m going to try to incorporate our presidential nominees. I will be using a canvass board, acrylic paints and printed photographs. (102)
I decided to use a 5x7 canvas panel, acrylic inks and photographs. I applied the principles of designs throughout the process. The most obvious would be the repetition of the photographs of the candidate’s heads. I placed the photos in a way that creates asymmetrical balance. The two larger Hillary heads balance the three smaller Trump heads. I used dark colors as a background to contrast the candidates skin tones, hair and shirts, and these specific dark colors to represent the dark times we our facing as a nation. I used directional force when I placed the Hillary heads so the eyes were looking at Donald’s larger head, and the two smaller Donald heads looking and pointing at the Large Donald head. I used scale by using different sized head shots of the same picture. (134)
4. Document your project by uploading a photo of your final product (2 points).
Post Step3 and Step 4 here:
Can any of this chapter learning and the mini-hands-on project be applied to your life, family, community and career? At least 50-words. (2 points)
The terms and ideas I learned in this chapter can be applied to analyzing art in the future. I don’t think it will apply to any other aspects of my life. I’m a literal person, and have a hard time applying something like the principles of design to anything other than art and design. (54)
Note: All the writing part needs to add word count at the end (2 points).
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell https://youtu.be/bfv9T1lSO2U
Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917)
THE THINKER
The thinker is an iconic sculpture by Rodin, which was originally a smaller piece, as part of "The Gates of Hell', and enlarged to this size in 1904. Until a few years ago, I had never really given this sculpture much thought I had seen pictures, and many references in cartoons and on t.v. growing up, and had always assumed it was hundreds of years old.
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