Burridge Composition and Balance Vertical Diagonal Horizontal Cruciform Curves Overlapping Frames Meandering Tension Cantilever Triangular Composition Framing your subject Symmetrical balance ID: 681718
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Compositional Designs
By Robert BurridgeSlide4
Composition and Balance
VerticalDiagonalHorizontal
CruciformCurvesOverlapping FramesMeandering
Tension
Cantilever
Triangular
Composition
Framing your subject
Symmetrical balance
Radial
Balance
Asymmetrical
BalanceSlide5
1. Make a view finder, as per the demonstration.
2. Look at the black and white images provided and find examples of each compositional design. Cut and glue into your sketchbook. Copy the notes relating to each compositional design
3. To be evaluated under Design/Theory & History Foundations.Slide6
Vertical CompositionVertical lines can create the feeling of…
HeightMoves your eye up and down
Boredom (b/c it is repeated)Melting / dripping
TrappedSlide7Slide8
In fashion design…Slide9Slide10Slide11
Diagonal CompositionDiagonal lines can create the feeling of…
PowerGoing Down / a fall
Moving up / a struggleSlide12
In graphic design…Slide13Slide14
In photography…Slide15Slide16
In photography…Slide17Slide18Slide19
In nature…Slide20
In famous paintings…Slide21
In advertisements…Slide22
Horizontal Composition
Calmness
Stillness
Sense of stability
Moves the eye from side to sideSlide23Slide24
In advertisements…Slide25
Cruciform CompositionCruciform can give the feeling of…
an imposing object / figuref
reedom (spreading your wings)crucified (like on a cross)m
akes your eye more up and down and right to left.Slide26Slide27
In abstract art…Slide28Slide29
In photography…Slide30
Curves CompositionCurved lines can…
Make you dizzyFeels soft / warm
Imitate organic subjectsSoft / Gentle
Moves your eyes move around in circlesSlide31Slide32Slide33
In photography…Slide34
In graphic design…Slide35
Overlapping
Frames
Overlapping Frames can create the feeling of…
c
onfusion
o
verwhelming
c
an resemble a mapSlide36Slide37Slide38Slide39Slide40Slide41
Rule of ThirdsSlide42Slide43Slide44Slide45Slide46
Meandering Composition
feeling of being everywhereunity
fairnessscatteredSlide47Slide48
Tension Composition
A struggle between two things or feelingsFighting
ArgumentA battleSlide49Slide50Slide51Slide52
Cantilever Composition
danglinghanging on
suspenseSlide53Slide54
Triangular Composition
Makes your eye examine all sides of the canvasDirects your eye to the top
Stabilitybalance Slide55Slide56Slide57
Framing Your SubjectSlide58
Three Types of Balance
Radial
Asymmetrical
SymmetricalSlide59
Symmetrical Balanceb
alance Stable (physical or mental)
equal / fairequalitySlide60Slide61
In interior design…Slide62Slide63
In graphic design…Slide64
In photography…Slide65
In interior design…Slide66
Radial Balance Going in many directions
From the inside outSharing
equalitySlide67Slide68
Asymmetrical Balance Favoring one side over the other
UnfairUnbalanced
One side being more important than the other