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Chapter 9

Chapter 9   The Principles of Design




Balance

Emphasis and Focal Point

Scale and Proportion

Repetition and Rhythm

Unity and Variety




Fig. 221
Leonardo da Vinci, Illustration of Proportion of the Human Figure

Fig. 222-223
Computer images of the Gehry House, Frank Gehry

Balance

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Symmetrical Balance

Fig. 224
Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance

Fig. 225
Enguerrand Quarton, Coronation of the Virgin

Asymmetrical Balance

Fig. 234
William Meritt Chase, The Nursery

Fig. 230
Rose Window, Chartres Cathedral

Emphasis and Focal Point

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Fig. 233
Georges de la Tour, Joseph the Carpenter

Fig. 239
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii

Fig. 236
Larry Poons, Orange Crush

Fig. 239-240
Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas

Scale and Proportion

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Fig. 242
Claes Oldenburg, Trowel

Fig. 243
John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward D. Boit

Fig. 244
Hokusai, The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

Fig. 249
Doryphorus, Polykleitos

Fig. 250
Parthenon, Athens, Greece

Repetition and Rhythm

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Fig. 252
Auguste Rodin, Gates of Hell with Adam and Eve

Unity and Variety

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re: Fig. 256
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982

Fig. 259
Claude Monet, The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil

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