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The document provides information on multiple focal points in paintings. It discusses that focal points help convey the artist's intent and draw attention to important elements. Having multiple focal points can guide the viewer's eye around the painting. Elements like composition, color, value, and details like eyes in portraits can be used to create and define focal points. Multiple focal points provide visual weight and rhythm in a painting.

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Science Project

The document provides information on multiple focal points in paintings. It discusses that focal points help convey the artist's intent and draw attention to important elements. Having multiple focal points can guide the viewer's eye around the painting. Elements like composition, color, value, and details like eyes in portraits can be used to create and define focal points. Multiple focal points provide visual weight and rhythm in a painting.

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Filipino Art Tendencies

Multiple Focal Points


By Lisa Marder
By Richard Mckinley
Lisa Marder is an artist and educator who studied drawing and painting at
Harvard University. She is an instructor at the South Shore Art Center in
Massachusetts when she is not working on her own art.
OUR EDITORIAL PROCESS
Updated May 08, 2019
The focal point of a painting is an area of emphasis that demands the most
attention and to which the viewer's eye is drawn, pulling it into the painting.
It is like the bullseye on a target, although not as overt. It is how the artist
draws attention to the particular content of the painting and is often the most
important element of the painting. The focal point should be based on the
artist's intent, the reason for doing the painting, so should be determined
early in the process.
By Christine Wu
By John Williams
Purpose of Focal Points How to Create Focal Points
Focal points help to give a painting meaning and convey The elements and principles of design work
the intent of the artist. It is the artist's responsibility to
determine what the focal point is and to manipulate the together to help create and define the focal
colors, values, and composition to create a focal point point. Any of the elements of art—line, shape,
that adds to the meaning of the painting. It should not be color, value, form, texture, and space—can
left up to the viewer to guess what the focal point is. contribute to defining the focal point in
A focal point helps to tell the viewer the story of a
conjunction with the principles of art—balance,
painting, what is important about the painting, and to contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern,
give dramatic impact to a painting. Multiple focal points rhythm, and unity/variety.
can lead the viewer's gaze in, through, and around the
painting, providing areas for the eyes to pause for a
Composition, how the elements and principles
moment, allowing time to digest the scene and
contemplate the work. Multiple focal points also provide a of artwork together to form the structure of
rhythm to the painting. the painting, is important in manipulating the
viewer's gaze around the painting. The
There doesn't need to be a specific focal point if the composition can help define the focal point and
subject itself is the focal point, for example in a portrait
painting. In that case, eyes are often the focal point, a focal point can strengthen the composition.
along with specific detail, as in Vermeer's The Girl With They work interdependently to create visual
a Pearl Earring. Creating focal points gives you as the weight.
artist more control over how your artwork is viewed and
perceived.
By Rob Levin
Highly Expressive Art
The inspiration and power of the arts play a vital role in enabling our
children and young people to enhance their creative talent and develop
their artistic skills.

By engaging in experiences within the expressive arts, young people


will recognise and represent ideas and concepts interpreted from the
world around them. They can also safely express feelings and
emotions, both their own and those of others.

The expressive arts play a central role in shaping our sense of our
personal, social and cultural identity. Learning in the expressive arts
also plays an important role in supporting young people to recognise
and value the variety and vitality of culture locally, nationally and
globally.
By Matt Talbert
By Matt Talbert
Learning in, through and about the expressive arts enables children
and young people to:

● be creative and express themselves in different ways


● experience enjoyment and contribute to other people’s enjoyment
through creative and expressive performance and presentation
● develop important skills, both those specific to the expressive
arts and those which are very transferable
● develop an appreciation of aesthetic and cultural values,
identities and ideas and, for some, prepare for advanced learning
and future careers by building foundations for excellence in the
expressive arts.
By Jimmy Law
By Matt Talbert
Polychromatic
POLYCHROMATIC

The word is simply used for multi-coloured art, or things decorated in- or having
several colours. The term was first used to describe the decoration of wood and stone
carving in full colour and gold. Much Egyptian, Greek was originally polychrome with
sculptures painted in strong colours. So was ancient architecture such as the
Parthenon in Rome according to pigment traces found on the building.

Polychrome representations have always been used in all most cultures in the world.
With the advent of Christian medieval- and Renaissance art, the Europeans were
subjected to a true bombardment of colours to evoke emotion and religious awe.
Sophisticated Islamic art served much the same purpose though it was mostly abstract
and geometric in comparison.
Minimalist
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design,
especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the
essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all
non-essential forms, features or concepts. As a specific movement in
the arts it is identified with developments in post–World War II
Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s
and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement
include Ad Reinhardt, Tony Smith, Donald Judd, John McCracken,
Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Larry Bell, Anne Truitt,
Yves Klein and Frank Stella. Artists themselves have sometimes
reacted against the label due to the negative implication of the work
being simplistic.[1] Minimalism is often interpreted as a reaction to
abstract expressionism and a bridge to postminimal art practices.

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