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Day 2 Arts Script

The document discusses the seven principles of art: balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, rhythm, and unity/variety. It defines each principle and provides examples to illustrate how artists use these principles to create effects and convey intent in their work. Balance refers to the visual weight distribution in a composition. Contrast is created by differences between elements that draw the eye. Emphasis dominates attention. Movement is real or implied flow of lines around an image. Rhythm relies on repetition with variety. Pattern demands uniform repetition. Unity/variety creates harmony amid interest and rest. The principles help determine if art is successful and finished.

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Day 2 Arts Script

The document discusses the seven principles of art: balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, rhythm, and unity/variety. It defines each principle and provides examples to illustrate how artists use these principles to create effects and convey intent in their work. Balance refers to the visual weight distribution in a composition. Contrast is created by differences between elements that draw the eye. Emphasis dominates attention. Movement is real or implied flow of lines around an image. Rhythm relies on repetition with variety. Pattern demands uniform repetition. Unity/variety creates harmony amid interest and rest. The principles help determine if art is successful and finished.

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DAY 2: ARTS SCRIPT-

INTRODUCTION: “GOOD-AFTERNOON EVERYONE, MY NAME IS (STATE YOUR NAME) AND WE ARE


THE REPORTERS FOR TODAY IN ARTS. OUR REPORT FOR TODAY IS ALL ABOUT THE PRINCIPLES OF
ART.

Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative
talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. The word
“principle” means: “a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption”, including “a
rule or code of conduct”. Therefore, a principle refers to the fundamental aspects or rules of
something. In the visual arts, it would refer to its fundamentals or rules, which leads us to the
question, what are the fundamentals of visual arts, or what are the principles of art? It is important
to note before we explore these art principles, that these should not be confused with the elements
of art, which are described as the “visual tools” that compose an artwork. These also become criteria
by which artworks are analyzed.

The principles of art represent how the artist uses the elements of art to create an effect and to help
convey the artist's intent. The principles of art and design are balance, contrast, emphasis,
movement, pattern, rhythm, and unity/variety. The use of these principles can help determine
whether a painting is successful, and whether or not the painting is finished.

Now let us explore the Seven Principles of Art. Balance refers to the visual weight of the elements of
the composition. It is a sense that the painting feels stable and "feels right." Imbalance causes a
feeling of discomfort in the viewer.

Balance can be achieved in 3 different ways:

1.) Symmetry, in which both sides of a composition have the same elements in the same position, as
in a mirror-image, or the two sides of a face.

2.) Asymmetry, in which the composition is balanced due to the contrast of any of the elements of
art. For example, a large circle on one side of a composition might be balanced by a small square on
the other side

3.) Radial symmetry, in which elements are equally spaced around a central point, as in the spokes
coming out of the hub of a bicycle tire.

Contrast is the difference between elements of art in a composition, such that each element is made
stronger in relation to the other. When placed next to each other contrasting element command the
viewer’s attention. The areas of contrast are among the first thing that the viewer’s eyes are drawn.
Contrast can be achieved by placing objects together and creating contrasting effect.
Negative/Positive space is an example of contrast including the command of variety of colors.

Emphasis is when the artist creates an area of the composition that is visually dominant and
commands the viewer's attention. This is often achieved by contrast.

Movement is the result of using the elements of art such that they move the viewer's eye around
and within the image. A sense of movement can be created by diagonal or curvy lines, either real or
implied, by edges, by the illusion of space, by repetition, by energetic mark-making.

Rhythm is created by movement impied through the repetition of elements of art in a non-uniform
but organized way. It is related to rhythm in music. Unlike pattern which demands consistency,
rhythm relies on variety.
Pattern is the uniform repetition of any of the elements of art or any combination thereof. Anything
can be turned into a pattern through repetition. Some classic patterns are spirals, grids, weaves.

Unity/Variety is present when you want an art to feel unified such that all the elements fit together
comfortably. Too much creates monotony, too much variety creates disharmony. Both of these
principles are needed for the areas of interest in your composition along with places for your eyes to
rest.

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