1. Focal Point Balance Rhythm
Principles of Design
Focal Point
Balance
Rhythm

2. Central Location
O’Keeffe, Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue

3. Central Location
Thomas Eakins, The Chess Players

4. Converging Lines
Paul Klee, Ghost Chamber with the Tall Door

5. Contrast by Shape
Jacob Lawrence, The Shoemaker

6. Contrast by Color Thomas Anshutz, A Rose
Thomas Eakins, The Artist’s Wife and His Setter Dog

7. Contrast by Size
Ancient Egyptian

8. Contrast by Texture
Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field

9. Contrast by Value
Everett Shinn, Spanish Music Hall

10. Symmetrical Balance

11. Symmetrical Balance
Tiffany

12. Asymmetrical Balance

13. Asymmetrical Balance
Seurat: Study for A Sunday on La Grand Jatte

14. Regular Rhythm
Childe Hassam
Frank Lloyd Wright

15. Regular Rhythm

16. Alternating Rhythm
Ancient Greece, Aryballos (oil container used by athletes)
Mimbres pottery

17. Progressive Rhythm Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken
Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

18. Rhythm

19. Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World

20. Edgar Degas, The Dance Class

21. George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo