Organizing Principles

three essential components of art: subject, form and content.
they work together, cant be fully understood without the others.
form refers to the total arrangment of the composition and to the very act of organizing and composing it.
when we see images, our minds look to create order out of confusion.
principles of orgainization guide the artist. harmony, variety, balance, proportion, dominance, movement, economy.
harmony, the relationship between the sections of a composition are pleasing, like color, texture, ect. (common characteristics)
rythem is a continuance flow of repeated beats, the type depends on how ofter the beats are repeated. negative space creates a difference in the rythm but adds the the rythm. patterns are established through rythem.
closure (btw, this is forever branded on my brain) is looking at something as a whole rather then the individual parts. gotta love that gestalt! closure helps you see a group relationship.
visual linkingg, shared edges, overlapping, transparencey and interpenetration.
variety is counterwight to harmony, too much harmony can lead to monotony
through introduction of contrast, an area, shape, or image is made to become emphasized or more dominant. depth in a composition can creater contrast and help a form communicate its purpose and meaning. contrast-opposite or dissimilarity...elaboration-increase variety, add to areas that lack visual interest
impossible to consider principles of organization without balance. balance types, gravitational equilibrium, force, symmetry (formal balance), approximate symmetry (formal balance slightly altered), radial (circle-ish), asymmetry (informal), proportion (think pieces of pie, golden mean/golden section is ideal standard)
dominance emphasizes important parts of compositions by isolation, placement, direction, scale, and character
movement (think direction, kinda like continuance with the dots)
economy means to compose with efficiency expressing an idea as simply and directly as possible with no arbituary or excessive us of the elements
(try saying this five times fast!) abstraction, simplification, rearrangments!
tectonic vs. atectonic- closed massive simple vs. open to a large degree