Topic 7 - Formal elements of painting: composition Flashcards
What is Composition?
The organisation and arrangement of elements.
What is Scale?
The size of something.
What is Form?
The representation of solids in space.
What is the Contour line?
A line which defines a form or edge.
What is Chiaroscuro?
Tonal contrasts between light and dark to model a three-dimensional form.
What is Tone?
Lightness or darkness of a colour.
What is Texture?
The visual and tactile quality of a surface.
What does Veracity mean?
Truthfulness or accuracy.
What is Pattern/ornamentation?
A repeated decorative design often denying pictorial space.
What is Pictorial space?
The illusion of three-dimensional space.
What is the Golden Section?
The division of a unit into two parts so that the ratio of the shorter to the longer equals the ratio of the longer to the whole. (This ratio is approximately 1:1.618, but it’s easier to think of it as 8:13).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nSfJEDZ_WM
The proportional ratio known as the Golden Section was demonstrated by…
Euclid in 300 BCE.
The Golden Section provides a way of…
Dividing up space in a way that is aesthetically pleasing and inherently harmonious
