Thursday, January 26, 2012

Definitions for Balance Assignment

Organic Shape: Things pertaining to living organisms or something from the natural world. In art, organic shapes are derived from natural forms.


Geometric Shape: regular shapes most often found in human-made objects, machines and architecture. Circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, and triangles are common geometric shapes.


Symmetrical Balance: The near or exact matching of left and right sides of a three-dimensional form or a two-dimensional composition.


Asymmetrical Balance: placement of non-identical forms to either side of a balancing point in such a way that the two sides seem to be of the same visual weight.


Radial Balance: the balance as the result of components that are distributed around a center point or spring out from a central line.

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