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.