Proportion in Art

78 Q1 Proportion in Art

1. Proportion in Art

2. Proportion

3. Notice how in these drawings the people all look in correct proportion, the size of their body parts (like their heads or arms) are the right size compared to the rest of their body.  They don’t have a leg that’s too small or a foot that’s too big.  They all fit the size that they’re supposed to be based on all the other sizes. Proportion ​ the relationship in size of one part of a work of art to another. 

4. Out of Proportion

5. Out of Proportion When there is something in an artwork that is obviously out of proportion, it can add excitement, mystery, confusion, or humor. What is out of proportion in this picture and what feeling does it give the painting?

6. Scale

7. Scale is sometimes used to show how big or small something is because it is very big or very small.  If something is really small it will be placed next to a quarter to show how small it is.  If it is really big it will be shown with people to show how large they are. In this picture, what are used to show scale?  How big do you think these sculptures are and how do you think they got there? Scale​ The relative size of one object to another.

8. Exaggeration

9. This is often done by exaggerating scale to make something seem outrageous.  It can be one part of something, like an extremely large head, or it can be all of something, like in this example. What are these sculptures of and why are they exaggerated?  How can you tell they are exaggerated to be very big? Exaggeration​ showing something in a more extreme or dramatic way than it is in real life.

10. Perspective

11. In this example, the artist uses linear perspective to make it look like there is depth in this flat painting.  That means all the lines in the painting all go back to one vanishing point, and all the lines in the building move toward that point as well, making it look like there is depth in the painting. Perspective​ a way of showing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface, giving the appearance of depth in space

12. Depth

13. There are many ways to show depth, like perspective mentioned above.  You can use overlapping (like the woman in the front right is overlapping the man next to her, you can see all of her but not all of him, so it looks like she’s closer), scale (in this way scale means things that are closer look bigger, like the man in the hat lying down, and things farther away look smaller, like the man in the middle lying next to a tree) and color (the farther away the objects are the lighter their colors and the closer they are the darker their colors) to show depth in this painting. Depth​ making things look closer or farther away and making a two-dimensional object seem three dimensional.