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| The selection, arrangement, or organization of visual elements in a work af art. |
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| A cohesion, a wholeness, and a cmopleteness of the visual elements in a work of art. |
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| Guidlines that artists follow to bring unity and focus to their vision. The principles of design include dominance, consistency with variety, rhythm, proportions, scale, and balance. |
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| The emphasis placed on the main center of interest by giving, it the brightest illumination, the main linear movements, the strongest color, the most detail, the most striking contrast, or a prominent location in space. |
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| A principle of design that helps integrate a work of art by making the most of the lines ir shapes resemble one another in some way, by treating the value contrasts in a uniform way, or by estaablishing homogenous relationships among the color contrasts and the other visual elements. However, occasional differences, changes, and variations in the treatment of the visual elements break from absolute consistency so that the elements do not look static, dull, or monotonous. |
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| The manner or method of production evident in a work of art. |
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| A repition of the visual elements in a work of art, in which they seem to flow to a steady beat acro the picture plane or through-out a 3D work. |
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| Mathematical relationships or ratios that govern the measurements and placement of the lines, shapes, and masses of a work of art. |
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| The relationship between two unequal lines such that the smaller is to the larger as the larger is to the whole (the addition of the 2). |
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| The relationship between the artistic image and the object in reality that it imitates. |
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| The depiction of important people in a larger scale than subordinate individuals in order to symbolize their significance. |
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| A principle of deign in which the stimulation of the visual elements on one side of a work, visually seems to "weigh" as much as the stimulation of those on the other side. |
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| A balance achieved when the formal elements on one side resemble the formal elements on the other side, but reversed as in mirror image. |
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| A blanced design in which the visual elements on one side are rather different from those on the other side. |
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