Sunday, 29 January 2012

Principles & Elements of Design

PRINCIPLES

There is usage of focal point in his artwork The She - Wolf. he uses the red arrow line to emphasize the body of the wolf. However, the position of the head and tail can appear to be either way. there is however, lots of repetition in his art. he often repeats the colour, shape, texture in his art.

ELEMENT

There is vast usage of lines, and shape as well as texture and colour in his art. he uses lots of different characteristics oflines in his art such as continous, outlines, length, direction and so on. There are shapes that can be geometric, organic, positive, negative, static or dynamic. The texture of his art was mainly hard and rough as he mainly used oil paint for his art. He also used varies shades of colour. He mostly used brighter colours before 1950's, however after that, he switched to darker colour due to depression and alcoholism.

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