How to Use the Egyptian Canon of Proportions in Landscape Art

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Spearbearer
Polykleitos of Argos
marble sculpture
450-440 B.C. (Classical Greek)

Great Mosque at Cordoba
Cordoba, Espana
architecture
786-987 (Islamic)

Clothespin
Claes Oldenburg
Cor-Ten steel with stainless steel base of operations
1976 (Pop Art)

The Parthenon
Acropolis, Athen, Greece
448-432 B. C.
compages (Classical Greek)

Chapter 3: Principles of Design

Unity and Variety

• unity is the utilise of elements that have similarities in their visual elements
• conceptual unity uses similarity of ideas, rather than visual similarities to hold a design together

Balance

• Actual BALANCE AND PICTORIAL BALANCE
  
  • actual balance is a state of stability in an object that has weight
  • pictorial balance refers to the state of visual stability created in a work of fine art. The Spearbearer by Polykleitos of Argos is a good example of both bodily and pictorial balance.
• SYMMETRICAL Remainder
  
  • symmetrical residue occurs when in that location is approximate symmetry in a work of fine art. Leonardo da Vinci'southward sketchbook drawing of the Vitruvian Human being is a good example of symmetrical balance.
• ASYMMETRICAL Rest
  
  • asymmetrical balanceoccurs when the visual weight of one side of a piece of work is "heavier" than another
• HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL, AND RADIAL Residue
  
  • horizontal residue occurs when the right and left of a piece of work accept a not bad similarities.
  • vertical balance occurs when the peak and bottom of a work of art have great similarities.
  • radial balance occurs when there are like characteristics that exist equidistant from a center point.
• IMBALANCE is used by an artist to brand a viewer uneasy with the image

Emphasis and Focal Point

• emphasis is the visual distension of areas in a work to draw more of a viewer's attention
• focal point is i area that has been emphasized to a greater extent than others in a work. Leonardo da Vinci's Terminal Supper uses linear perspective as a tool for creating a focal point in the center of the work.

Rhythm

• rhythm is the presence of orderly progressions in a work
• regular repetition is the reuse of the same or similar elements to create a visual rhythm. Regualr repetition is evident in the Great Mosque at Cordoba in Spain.

Scale

• scale is the relative size of an element compared to tohers like information technology.
• HIERARCHICAL SCALING is the employ of scale to bear witness relative importance. About Egyptian artwork relied heavily on this aspect of scale. An excellent example of this occurs in the Palette of Narmer. If you lot expect at the piece of work, the most important figures in the political and social order of ancient Egypt are shown larger than the ones of lesser social/politcal importance. Narmer is shown vanquishing his enemies who are shown as smaller in relative size.
• Distortion OF SCALE is a procedure where the artist uses an unfamiliar scale on a familar object or image. Claes Oldenburg's Clothespin is a great example of this. Oldenburg makes an everyday object seem important and even heroic by using large scale.

Proportion

• proportion is the comparative human relationship betwixt things
• Canon OF PROPORTIONS: "KEEPING THINGS IN PROPORTION" is a set of rules that advise platonic proportion in common objects. The ancient Greek sculpture the Spearbearer uses such a canon of proportions.
• THE GOLDEN Hateful
  
  • the golden hateful or golden rectangle is a set up of ratios that are dependent on one another. Using the Golden Mean allows an artist to set upwardly logical proportional relationships in a work of art or architecture. The Parthenon uses this proportional model. The Greeks found that the ratio of one:1.618 occurred in nature and it reflected their philosophical belief that Homo, a natural grade, was also an platonic course.
  • root five rectangle is another ideal proportion that is derived from the ratio of 1:two.236 or the square root of v
• THE Spiral shows the attributes of the Gold Mean as information technology occurs in nature. The nautilus shell exhibits this ratio in its spiral shape and proportions.

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Source: https://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/sp04/art105-3.html

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