Rhythm, Scale, and Proportion
Rhythm is based on repetition, much like a pattern the same elements are repeated but with rhythm there are slight variations in the pattern. Like waves crashing on the beach, they continuously break on the shore creating lines that are repeated but each line is its own, its different from the one before. Rhythm can be portrayed through all visual arts. In Vincent Van Gogh's starry night the rhythm is in the brush strokes he repeated to create the sky. Some artist chose to use rhythm in their paintings to create a type of emotion or feeling, in starry night you get the sense of soft easy movement or sound , but in Kaiho Yusho’s fish nets drying in the sun the difference in lines gives you a sense of sharp and quick sound. Rhythm is most easily understood within music. Rhythm represents our desire for order, rhythm is like our own heartbeat , so naturally rhythm comes easy to us and helps connect us to a piece of art. Just as important as knowing the positives to using rhythm, scale and proportion are equally as important. Scale and proportion in art are both concerned with size. Scale refers to the size of an object in relationship to another object. All artwork has a physical size; when referring to an artwork's size, we use the term scale. The relative size of the artwork is always compared to the size of the human body; life-sized, miniature, enormous, are all terms that use the human body as a size reference. Without these elements, many artworks that have made a mark in the art world wouldn't be what they are today.
Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night Saint Rémy, June 1889.
Eugène Jansson Riddarfjärden, Stockholm, 1898
Joseph Stella, Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1917-1918
Works cited
1. Lamp, Lucy. "Design in Art." Sophia . BillNy, 00 000000 2013. Web. 23 Sep 2013. <http://www.sophia.org/tutorials/design-in-art-repetition-pattern-and-rhythm>.
2. Getlein, Mark. Living with Art. 9th edition. 1. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2010. Print.
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