Symmetrical balance, Asymmetrical balance, Scale

1. Describe several ways that artist unify their artwork. Find an example and describe how it is unified. 

Symmetrical balance is known to form a balance that has the same element or imagery on both sides, which are opposite to each other. Unity plays a role that brings certain element in the artwork such as color, shape, size, etc. By achieving this, it creates a major impact to the artwork that is driven by creating attention and also givens a feeling of what the artwork stands for. 

In this artwork, French artist named Henri Matisse creates red room or the Harmony In red. As it describe in the video,HarmonIntroDesignPrinciples,"Matisse red painting is unify through the color red and also the lyrical patterns shape like vines or trees repeated in the table cloth, the wall paper and the trees outside of the window". By viewing this canvas the colors are heavenly painted by using oil mediation and items can be seen arranged in a scatters pattern across the table. Symmetrical is expressed by the color in the painting and items on the table are repeating. The colors and the items are introduced with warm and cold colors such as the glass vase, fruits, flowers and the fruit bowl. 

2. Describe how an artist created asymmetrical balance- post an artwork of your choice and explain how it is balance asymmetrical 

Asymmetrical balance means to have no balance. The composition of this painting is less equal than a symmetrical balance painting. If a painting were cut in half, a certain side would stand out more than the other. The color's brightness, shapes, element, size and form all determine the balance of the artwork.

Asymmetrical balance is introduced by showing which side is more interesting. A good example would be the Japanese painting “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. The right side shows small waves and boats are being pulled towards a big wave. On the left side the wave is introduced as strong and more dangerous than the other side. The left side shows heavy color's that represent the color of natural water and the background also shows a heavy storm, which stands for a gloomy feeling.

3. How can scale change the meaning of an artwork? Use a visual example of your choice as an example and explain how the meaning is changed by scale 

Scale and proportion in art are both concerned with size. Scale refers to the size of an object and proportion is the amount of related part that becomes a whole. Scale is one of the most important decisions of planning a artwork. Whether to do an artwork in large scale or small decides how the work will be done. There have been many artists in the twentieth century that used distorted scale for visual effect.

One of the examples that show distortion is the well-used sculpture named "Roses of Will Ryman" and can be seen in the Elementary school in Raleigh. This sculpture portrays a giant flower growing out of the ground in the cityscape environment. While viewing this object at close range we can see and feel it's realism that portraying a in un visual vision. Here we can see the bend objects that is forming into different size of the scape, leaves pointing in different direction, a small bug can be seen crawling down the scape and finally flower petals that are blooming making the artwork to feel alive.