There are two types of compositions, static and dynamic compositions. In this exercise, we worked with dynamic compositions to create something more than the eye could see, and create movement with simple rectangles.
We created an abstraction with a painting from Egon S
chiele, with complex uses of rectangles. I think this exercise was very interesting because I never really thought of using rectangles in such ways. It was surprising what you could do with a rectangle. They can go many ways and if you
overlap rectangles you could even get another shape. In my opinion, this exercise was more on the creative side and I really
enjoyed it.
Gestalt Praxis is putting an idea into ways it can be applied. Symmetry is very important because it creates a balance between what people see, and everything is distributed evenly. Asymmetry is the opposite of symmetry so everything is unbalanced. These two aspects can be used a lot to
create a piece of beautiful complex art.
I thought this exercise was very interesting it was more on how to learn to make something symmetrical but also to learn how to make something asymmetrical. In the little square box, we m
ade many circles aligned, but on a certain row we decided to add another color to one of the circles that didn’t exactly match with its group, to create an asymmetrical aspect, but the rest of the rows are still symmetrical.
Line art is created with only black and white. It is basically like drawing with a pen. It creates positive and negative spaces. Line art was mostly created back then using paper and pen. Line art is mostly flat graphics. This type of art was highly valued back then. Line art now is mostly used for logos and commercials.
This exercise was pretty eye-catching, it was a bit harder to do than the other two, but I personally liked the res
ults better. It was probably my favorite exercise out of the three. We created different lines with different weights. Some were curved and some
were straight. I think the purpose of this exercise is to slowly get us ready to use these lines in the future to create more abstract art.
Work Cited
Cromar, William. “Pointtolinedynamic.” NewMediaWiki [Licensed for Non-Commercial Use Only] / PointToLineDynamic, 2020, newmediawiki.pbworks.com/w/page/126787724/pointToLineDynamic.
Cromar, William. “Pointtolinegestaltpraxis.” NewMediaWiki [Licensed for Non-Commercial Use Only] / PointToLineGestaltPraxis, 2020, newmediawiki.pbworks.com/w/page/126787835/pointToLineGestaltPraxis.
Cromar, William. “Pointtolinelineart.” NewMediaWiki [Licensed for Non-Commercial Use Only] / PointToLineLineArt, 2020, newmediawiki.pbworks.com/w/page/134851131/pointToLineLineArt.