Blog 5

                   
                             Balance
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Asymmetrical balance can be seen in Childe Hassams "Rainy Day, Columbus Avenue, Boston" by the woman and daughter to the left are closer to us as well as the horses and buggy on the left side of the painting make the left look "heavier and darker" but it is balanced on the right side by having bigger buildings and more people walking through the streets.                                                                                                                ^

                         Emphasis
Emphasis is where a artist makes the viewer focus on the focal point. When Anna Vallayer-Coster painted "Still life with Musical Instruments" what she did was make the viewer draw their attention to the violin. This attention is drawn there because of the object is in the middle, shaped differently and brighter. the second would be the book located to the left of the violin because of the bright white and how large the object is compared to the rest. The third object that would I focused on was the horn as I made my way from right to left that is the next interesting thing that my eyes see the old gold circular shape. 

                        Repetition
Repetition is when something is repeated over and over again, artists can show this by showing the same shapes, colors or regular patterns. Jacob Lawrence does this in "Story Painter" by having the women stand in the same pose with their arms held in the air with an object in their hands.

                     Contrast
Contrast and variety could be seen as opposite characteristics. In Frank Gehry's "Dancing Building" we can look at the building oddly shaped on the left as smooth from the glass, dark because we see dark features inside, again oddly shaped. The building to the right of it is painting fairly bright, but we know it is rough like cement and has a fairly normal build to it as much like any other buildings.

                          Visual Movement
In Raphael's "Raffaello Sanzio" this painting makes us have visual movement by having all the bodies focused in a pyramid like shape, for instance how their arms focus on one point then ones gaze makes us look at where they are looking .We see every person in the image looking at each other which eventually leads us in a movement that ends at the first person we looked at.

                         Scale
An artist may use at times scale or proportion to manipulate the size of an actual object. In this case Claes Oldenburg used "Saw". This saw is usually about an grown mans arm length but this one as seen is buildings high, pretending to saw through the earth. We would call this an "large-size" saw, obviously not real and for artistic purposes only.