Contrast

Principle of Art Design Contrast Colors

1. Principles of art Contrast

2. Contrast the arrangement of opposite elements in a piece so as to create visual interest, excitement and drama .

3. Elements that can be contrasted Color and Tones Text (Typography) Proportion and Size Texture Direction or Movement Shape and Form Concept

4. Importance of Contrast 1. Contrast is attractive to the eye. 2. Contrast aids organization of information. 3 . Contrast creates a focus

5. Example of color Contrast A huge part of creating depth in an image, and interest in a piece, is by using multiple contrasting elements – or different elements set side by side. This is often done with color , form, size or texture. Color is the primary tool that Amorsolo uses to create contrast and depth in his piece. He uses light as a subject – the way the figures are all shaded in darker tones with the exception of a bright central pair and a young fruit picker, highlighted by light tones. “Fruit Pickers Harvesting Under the Mango Tree,” by Fernando Amorsolo in 1939

6. Contrast painting style: Tenebrism Tenebrism , from the Italian, tenebroso (murky), also called dramatic illumination , is a style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image. The technique was developed to add drama to an image through a spotlight effect, and was popular during the Baroque period of painting. “Supper at Emmaus" by Caravaggio

7. Example Contrast Richard Anuszkiewicz: Plus Reversed 1960 An example of op art, this painting has such a strong contrast in colors that it plays with visual perception and makes it seem as if the shapes are moving. There is also a contrast in shapes, in that positive shapes becomes negative shapes, and vice versa.

8. Example of Contrast Charles Sheeler Golden Gate, 1955 Oil on canvas H. 25 1/8 in. (63.8 cm), W. 34 7/8 in. (88.5 cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art, George A. Hearn Fund, 1955 (55.99) This is a dramatic and beautiful portrayal of a dramatic and beautiful bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco , California. The bridge has a distinct orange hue, and against the blue sky, creates a strong visual contrast. Sheeler has optimized this contrast by simplifying and almost abstracting the form of the bridge into shapes, and enhancing the intensity of the color of the bridge and the sky. The angle of view reveals its size and magnificence.

9. Example of Contrast Andy Warhol Electric Chair 1971 screenprint on paper 35.5 x 48 inches From the label text for Andy Warhol, Electric Chair (1971), from the exhibition Art in Our Time: 1950 to the Present, Walker Art Center , Minneapolis, September 5, 1999 to September 2, 2001: "In 1962, Andy Warhol started a series of silkscreened paintings of death and disasters that included photographs of suicides, plane and car crashes, and tragedy-stricken celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy. All the images were taken from the print media. He depicted an electric chair in several groups of silk-screens throughout the 1960s, the first in 1963--the same year that New York's Sing Sing State Penetentiary performed its last two executions by electric chair (capital punishment was banned in the United States from 1963-1997). For his 1968 retrospective at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Warhol produced yet another series, of which these works are a part. In these prints, however, he made some variations: he cropped the image to bring the electric chair to the foreground, and screened it in a variety of colors other than black, occasionally printing off-register double images. By the artist's account, the replication of the image was intended to "empty" it of meaning." This print contains a distinct visual contrast in the colors that are used. It also presents a contrast in subject matter, in the sense that the colors used do not fit our interpretation of expectation of an electric chair. The result is that it causes us to look at and consider the electric chair in a new way.

10. Examples of contrast in artwork: contrast in subject matter Emmanuel Rudnitsky (Man Ray) Gift 1921 Cast iron, tacks6 x 3 1/2 x 5 in. (15.24 x 8.89 x 12.7 cm) Publisher Emmanuel Galleria II Fauno , Turin (replicated in a 1970 edition of 11) Minneapolis Institute of Arts The William Hood Dunwoody Fund Image Copyright:© Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris The title of this artwork, "The GIft ", belies its content and presents a contrast between our idea of what a gift is and what this object represents. An iron, normally used to press clothing, is lined with tacks that would prevent normal use of the object. Man Ray offers us a visual pun and a Surrealist viewpoint of life.

11. Examples of contrast in artwork: contrast in subject matter Mona Hatoum Nature morte aux grenades Mona Hatoum often presents a contrast between subject matter and materials in her work. Like Warhol's Electric Chair, this work forces us to look at an object (hand grenade) in an entirely new way, because of the bright colors and unexpected materials. The "grenades" are displayed on what appears to be an operating table, suggesting an up close and and detailed examination--of the hand grenade--and presumably its purpose, use, and history in the contemporary world .

12. PLATES 11-12 for CONTRAST Plate 11 Chart of Contrast in Different Elements (HB pencil, Tech pen, Acrylic Paint and Brush) Plate 12 Contrast in C olors (HB pencil, Acrylic Paint and Brush)

13. Plate 12 : Contrast in Colors Create 6 pairs of colors indicating contrast using complementary pairings, black and white, 1 pair of warm and cool colors and one contrast color pair of your choice . The measurement of each rectangle is 3 x 2 inch each, divide each rectangle into to two and paint. Label each rectangle

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