Elements of Design

The First Project Pictures:

Symmetrical Balance: it is made of exactly similar parts facing each other or around the axis, symmetry.

Examples:

Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg
Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse
Oamaru Stone by Michael Green

Asymmetrical Balance: having parts that fail to correspond with one another in shape, size, or lacking or symmetry and having parts or aspects that are not equal in some respect.

Examples:

Brancusi
Claes Oldenburg
Hannes Grebin
Henry Moore
Magdalena Abakanowicz

Radial Balance: is the balance that is arranged like rays or the radii of a circle; diverging in lines from a common center

Examples:

Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse
Louise Bourgois
Louise Bourgois
Magdalena Abakanowicz

Scale: to measure something. Proportion: a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.

Examples:

Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg
Eva Hesse

Emphasis: Special importance, value, or prominence given to something. Vigor or intensity of expression.

Examples:

Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg
Michelangelo Pisteletto
Michelangelo Pisteletto

Contrast: the state of being different from something else that is typically in Juxtaposition, or close association.

Examples:

Brancusi
Brancusi
Eva Hesse
Richard Serra

Richard Serra

variety: the quality of state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity, sameness,or monotony.

Examples:

Louise Nevelson
Nam June
Nam June
Nam June
Nam June

repetition: the action of repeating something that has already been said or written

Examples:

Claes Oldenburg

Donald Judd

Donald Judd

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Rhythm: a strong; regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Examples:

Claes Oldenburg

Judy Chicago

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Richard Serra