The Principles of Design balance (symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radial) emphasis (focal point) proportion and scale rhythm and repetition unity and variety
Balance Absolute Symmetry: Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man: Illustrations of the proportions of the Human Figure, 1485
Frank Gehry, Gehry house, 1977-1978, Los Angeles Discontinuity – breaking the “rules” of design principles
Bilateral Symmetrical Balance, Enguerrand Quarton, The Coronation of Mary, 1454
Symmetrical Balance Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c Symmetrical Balance Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664 Light and Composition Orthogonal lines to the vanishing point meet precisely at the woman's finger.
Asymmetrical balance William Merritt Chase, The Nursery, 1887
radial balance Rose window, Chartres Cathedral, France
Focal Point and Emphasis Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Antoinette With Her Children
Emphasis and Focal Point Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Focal Point and Emphasis Larry Poons, Orange Crush, 1963
Diego VELAZQUEZ, Las Meninas, 1656, Oil on canvas, 10'5" x 9'1 competing focal points of emphasis implied lines of the gazes and focal points of light
Scale Claus Oldenburg, Trowel, 1971-76
Scale and proportion
Scale and proportion Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, 1823-1829, color woodcut, 10 x 15 in.
Doryphoros or "Canon", 450 BC. Polykleitos created this statue To support his published theoretical work "Canon" = "Rule", in which he was stating in mathematical terms the relationship of parts of the body with the whole, e.g. the proportion of finger with the palm, palm with wrist, wrist with elbow, elbow with arm. The proportion of the head with the body is one seventh (1/7).
Postmodern disjunction Elizabeth Murray, Jazz, 2001, 3-D lithograph The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. W.H. Auden
Rhythm and Repetition Rodin, Gates of Hell, 1900
Claude Monet, The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874
Great Wall of Los Angeles, Judy Baca