1. The Principles of Design
balance (symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radial)
emphasis (focal point)
proportion and scale
rhythm and repetition
unity and variety

2. Balance
Absolute Symmetry: Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man:
Illustrations of the proportions of the Human Figure, 1485

3. Frank Gehry, Gehry house, , Los Angeles Discontinuity – breaking the “rules” of design principles

4. Bilateral Symmetrical Balance, Enguerrand Quarton, The Coronation of Mary, 1454

5. Symmetrical Balance Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c
Symmetrical Balance Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c Light and Composition Orthogonal lines to the vanishing point meet precisely at the woman's finger.

6. Asymmetrical balance William Merritt Chase, The Nursery, 1887

7. radial balance Rose window, Chartres Cathedral, France

8. Focal Point and Emphasis Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Antoinette With Her Children

9. Emphasis and Focal Point Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784

10. Focal Point and Emphasis Larry Poons, Orange Crush, 1963

11. 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

12. Scale Claus Oldenburg, Trowel, 1971-76

13. Scale and proportion

14. Scale and proportion Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, , color woodcut, 10 x 15 in.

15. 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).

16. 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

17. Rhythm and Repetition Rodin, Gates of Hell, 1900

18. Claude Monet, The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874

21. Great Wall of Los Angeles, Judy Baca