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The picture to your left is Seurat's famous painting, "A Sunday on
La Grande Jatte," oil on canvas, 1884-86, 207.6 x 308 cm. If you click
on it, you will hear the following lines from Stephen Sondheim's brilliant
play, Sunday in the Park With George:
White--a blank page or canvas
The Challenge: Bring order to the Whole Through Design: Composition, Tension, Balance, Light, and Harmony. |
| Art of every medium requires
an understanding of these basic elements: COMPOSITION: "The arrangement of line,
form, mass, color, and so forth
in a work of art"--Dennis J. Sporre, Reality Through the Arts TENSION: The sense of excitement generated by the composition, of expectation, power, or even friction, via the use of line, juxtaposition of forms, and the general dynamic of the work. BALANCE: A sense of equilibrium brought about through physical symmetry or psychological relationships of elements within the composition. LIGHT: (Chiaroscuro) Mood created within a work through the medium, its display, or the use of space. HARMONY: The sense of completeness in a work of art, sometimes brought about physically by repetition, or emotionally by variation and dissonance. |
LINKS
Other important terms in Art by Dennis J. Sporre in Realty Through the Arts
Songs from Sunday in the Park With George (Karaoke)
Sondheim on Art
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