Sunday, August 29, 2010

Lecture Class Notes 8/27

Composition is overall organization of ideas, elements
-music
-writing
-mineral
-nature
-visual
-dance
-theatre

Words that have to do with and relate to the word composition:
complete, components, position, compromise, computate, posture, comparison, contrast, complex

Elements of Design:
-point
-line
-shapes/form
-color (hue)
-texture
-value (shade)
-space

Gestalt: "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts."

Form: sum total of physical characteristics

You can not not communicate.
Everything is relative when in comparison to something else.
Study meaning/content of objects or works.

At the end of the class, tables were assignned an element of design. My group got color and we had to portray it to the class by using sound only.

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