Homework

What is a focal point and list three ways to achieve it?- A focal point is a compositional device emphasizing a certain area or object to draw attention to the piece and to encourage closer scrutiny of the work. This can be achieved by contrast, isolation, and by placement.

List at least three types of rhythm and explain how it can help unify a piece of art?-
-Legato- connecting and slowing. It creates a sense of calmness is a piece.
-Staccato- abrupt changes with a dynamic contrast. This creates a visual rhythm.
-Alternating rhythm- motifs alternate consistently with one another to produce a regular sequence. The quality of the pattern creates the visual rhythm.

What is kinesthetic rhythm?-when a visual experience actually stimulates one of our other senses

What is the definition of a line?-a visual element of length. It can be created by setting a point in motion.

Contour- outlines that follow the edge of a form

Gesture- lines that imply motion in the forms,guide your eye, and stay within the edges

Implied line- an invisible line that is created through points, which your eye connects together and moves across the picture plane.

Explicit line- a line that makes a clear statement in a piece, but does not take away from it as a whole.

Lost and found line- a form that reveals an object through the use of contours

Line as direction- the direction of a line can convey moods and feeling in a piece

Psychic Line- Your mind automatically builds a connection between points or elements. Ex: the eye follows the same direction as the object that it is looking at at or facing towards


Line as texture and pattern- ex. Cross-hatching lines create both pattern and texture in a drawing, compared to gradual shading


“Paint up!” By Dihzahyners, Beirut

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/23497/street-art-on-the-steps-of-beirut-by-dihzahyners.html

The bright colors and various, changing movements of them and their shapes and sizes create a staccato rhythm. The colors also create gesture. For example, our eye knows where to follow as a result of the lines maintaining a continuous color. An implied line is used in a way on each step. While the spaces of the steps are painted separately, we know that the artist was trying to create a line because the color remains constant and in the pattern as it continues down the stairs.
The artist also creates line as a pattern when creating a line across the side of the step, using various colors on right-side-up and upside-down triangles throughout. I feel that the artist also used lost and found lines by keeping some of the steps, or parts of them, completely unpainted. I feel that way because I had almost thought not to even mention them, but without them, the piece as a whole would be incomplete.