Sandro Botticelli painted “The birth of Venus” in 1485 and Jean-Honore Fragonard painted” Happy accidents of the swing” in 1767. Botticellis painting is tempera on canvas‚ while Fragonard painting is oil on canvas. Botticellis’ piece shows a scene of Venus rising from the sea‚ balanced on a sea shell. To the right of Venus right is Zephyrus‚ God of Winds‚ he carries with him the gentle breeze Aura and together they blow the Goddess of Love ashore. The Horae‚ Goddess of the Seasons‚ waits to receive
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illustrations‚ amplifications‚ and embellishments) in favor of reproducing the logic‚ development‚ organization and emphasis of the original. Précis writing aims at intelligent reading and clear‚ accurate writing. It is a skill of both analysis and genesis that critically questions every thought included and excluded‚ each word used to express those thoughts‚ and the proportions and arrangements of those thoughts — both in the original and in the précis. In its exaction it mercilessly reveals
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the elements on the page are of equal weight • Placed symmetrically on the page • All design elements are centered on page Informal Balance • Value‚ size‚ and location of unequal elements on page are changed. Types of Contrast • Contrast / Emphasis • Adds variety to a design • Variations of elements in the printed product • Some elements of a layout standout • Achieved by a difference in size‚ color‚ or appearance • Round and straight‚ ornate and plain‚ broad and narrow Reverse Type
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Classicism “Classicism: Aesthetic attitudes and principles based on culture‚ art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome‚ and characterized by emphasis on form‚ simplicity‚ proportion‚ and restrained emotion.” Classical Idealism · - Classical idealism is best understood if one starts at the beginning‚ with Plato and his notion of paradeigma‚ which in essence is describing the other worldly‚ or heavenly place that all beings were originally designed after.[2] - The classical
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author illustrates her principle argument through means of persuasion focuses on how a given layout can indeed attract attention and how the dominant requisites of an effective marketing layout are‚ in fact‚ balance‚ movement‚ proportion‚ simplicity and clarity‚ unity and emphasis. Within the text‚ a segment focusing on unity and how it is an important element of attracting attention‚ Cohen argues: “A border surrounding an ad provides a method of achieving unity. Sets of borders may occur within an ad
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In Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow he depicts a landscape in the aftermath of a storm. Contrasting darkness into light a clear view is given of the remnants of the storm shown by dark clouds and gnarled trees and metamorphoses into the bright and sunny New England countryside. In comparison Hokusai’s Ejira in Suruga Province‚ also a landscape but shown in a different perspective. Where The Oxbow is seemingly calm and contained‚ Ejira In Suruga Province is a flurry of motion its’ inhabitants scurrying
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Design elements and principles Design elements and principles describe fundamental ideas about the practice of good visual design that are assumed to be the basis of all intentional visual design strategies. The elements form the ’vocabulary’ of the design‚ while the principles constitute the broader structural aspects of its composition. Awareness of the elements and principles in design is the first step in creating successful visual compositions. These principles‚ which may overlap‚ are used
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Design Elements & Principles I. Introduction Certain web sites seize users’ sights more easily‚ while others don’t. Why? Sometimes we have to remark our opinion about likes or dislikes of web sites‚ and it is easy to say just “I like this‚ or I don’t like that…” But if we are asked to answer the question why‚ then it is very difficult to find out the reason. Which factors do influence on someone to have a certain attitude toward a web page? There may be very many reasons related to it‚ but
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The Large Plain Trees by Vincent Van Gogh was painted in 1889 when a street in Saint-Remy was being repaved. When we first look at this oil painting we see the large yellow trees which can help us identify that it must be fall but then as our eyes scan down we can see the white rubble‚ I initially thought this could have been snow‚ and the reflection of the trees in the puddles. Behind the trees we see people walking and the women wearing long dresses‚ what looks to be a horse and townhouses. We
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Classicism are: belief in reason: emphasis on the civilized‚ modern and sophisticated modes of life; interest in urban society; preoccupation with human nature; love for mundane actuality; satirical tendency; expression of accepted moral truth; realistic recognition of things as they are; belief in good and evil; acceptance of established religious and philosophic creeds; attachment to normal‚ generic abstraction; impersonal objectivity; interest in public themes; emphasis on formal correctness‚ and the
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