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Lesson 5 - Balance



Balance




I Balance


bal·ance [bal-uhns] noun, verb, bal·anced, bal·anc·ing.
Noun - a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.

What a person or animal perceives is not only an arrangement of objects, of colors and shapes, of movements and size.  It is perhaps first of all the interplay of direct tension.

And… because they have magnitude and direction these tensions can be describe as ‘psychological forces’ (pull, strain).


Student's work


The figure is seen seized at the center of the square, it is being hold or attracted 
by something no physically present in the image.  
So we can observe how there are more things in the field of vision 
than those that strike the retina of the eye.



Artist and Designers are sensitive to this requirement when they arrange the pictorial objects in a painting or elements in a piece or sculpture.
Designers and Architects constantly are looking, seeking the proper distance between buildings, windows, and pieces of furniture.

Student's work
We…Artist and Designers create are own ‘structural skeleton’ in our work of art or design.


It is important to know that:

An unpleasant effect is produced by locations at which pulls are so equivocal and ambiguous that the eye cannot decide whether to the object or element is pressing in any particular direction.
Such wavering makes the visual statement unclear and interferes with the observer's perceptual judgment. 

So:
How real is the word 'forces'. Well since these pulls have a point of attack, a direction, and an intensity, they meet the conditions established by physicist as 'Physical Forces'. (Applied physical to perception)

The elements or objects of art attract or reject each other or they don't, creating many feelings or messages like: ambiguity, chaos, silence, emptiness, a sense of lost and desolation, extremely and rigid balance or musical and animated  balance, it will scream or wishper something or nothing.  


The location of the element or object may be balance in relation with size, weight and space and the number of elements or objects. 



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