There are several ways to achieve this. Proximity, or placing elements close together to be seen as a group, is one way to achieve this. See the photo below.
Next up: Unity through Repetition, Continuation, and more. Stay tuned.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Unity and a Few Ways to Achieve It.
Within a piece of art, Unity is necessary to make the art effective. Unity is a sense of congruity among the elements of a piece art, a sense that everything just fits, like things just belong together.
There are several ways to achieve this. Proximity, or placing elements close together to be seen as a group, is one way to achieve this. See the photo below.
Within this painting by Bouguereau, the subjects are placed all together, all in the middle, and the focus of the painting (the faces) are all close together. This creates that sense of "fitting", the sense of Unity.
Next up: Unity through Repetition, Continuation, and more. Stay tuned.
There are several ways to achieve this. Proximity, or placing elements close together to be seen as a group, is one way to achieve this. See the photo below.
Next up: Unity through Repetition, Continuation, and more. Stay tuned.
Tactile and Visual Texture
Now to get a little more in depth with some common concepts often found within patterned and textured images.
At the base level, texture can be grouped into one of two categories: Tactile Texture and Visual Texture.
Tactile Texture is a texture that can be felt and is a physical quality of the textured object. An example of the could be fur.
Fur is a texture that can be felt (if one were to see fur in person). The pattern of the bristles of hair could actually be felt. A painting by Lucien Freud (below) may look gruff due to the impasto style of painting, and so the texture of the surface of his painting would be considered tactile.
Visual Texture on the other hand, is texture that cannot be felt, as it is only implied by the way it is presented, be it drawn, painted or presented some other way. Take a look at this.
The rock shown here cannot be touched. You cannot run your fingers across the page and physically feel the texture of the drawing, as it is just pencil and paper. This trick-of-the-eye, or trompe l'oeil, is a Visual Texture, and is just implied by the way it is drawn.
At the base level, texture can be grouped into one of two categories: Tactile Texture and Visual Texture.
Tactile Texture is a texture that can be felt and is a physical quality of the textured object. An example of the could be fur.
Visual Texture on the other hand, is texture that cannot be felt, as it is only implied by the way it is presented, be it drawn, painted or presented some other way. Take a look at this.
The rock shown here cannot be touched. You cannot run your fingers across the page and physically feel the texture of the drawing, as it is just pencil and paper. This trick-of-the-eye, or trompe l'oeil, is a Visual Texture, and is just implied by the way it is drawn.
Pattern and Texture
Pattern and texture are two common elements of art, and both very important.
An example of pattern can be seen here.
(Copyright Mark Fuller)
Pattern, as one can see, is marks, shapes and motifs repeated with a sense of regularity. The snow dunes in the photo above repeat with enough regularity that a sense of pattern emerges.
The tiger stripes, although not perfectly uniform or symmetrical, also are an example of pattern, and in this case as opposed to the snow dunes, they present more of a crystallographic, or all over, pattern. No single stripe is more important than an other, and without the contrasting interesting colored background, this image might not even be recognizable as tiger stripes.
Texture also has repetition, but under the association that it visually implies a three-dimensional quality, implying a sense of touch.
The photo above has repeated motifs like pattern (and pattern and texture are often intertwined), but the reason this photo is more texture is because when a person looks at it they can imagine the feeling of touching it, the coarse, jagged rocks and the fineness of the dirt.
Even with an image a bit more abstracted, like the rippled glass shown above, it can still evoke a sense of touch. A person can easily imagine running their fingers across it.
An example of pattern can be seen here.
Pattern, as one can see, is marks, shapes and motifs repeated with a sense of regularity. The snow dunes in the photo above repeat with enough regularity that a sense of pattern emerges.
The tiger stripes, although not perfectly uniform or symmetrical, also are an example of pattern, and in this case as opposed to the snow dunes, they present more of a crystallographic, or all over, pattern. No single stripe is more important than an other, and without the contrasting interesting colored background, this image might not even be recognizable as tiger stripes.
Texture also has repetition, but under the association that it visually implies a three-dimensional quality, implying a sense of touch.
The photo above has repeated motifs like pattern (and pattern and texture are often intertwined), but the reason this photo is more texture is because when a person looks at it they can imagine the feeling of touching it, the coarse, jagged rocks and the fineness of the dirt.
Even with an image a bit more abstracted, like the rippled glass shown above, it can still evoke a sense of touch. A person can easily imagine running their fingers across it.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
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