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http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/building_lessons/principles_design.pdf
https://www.getty.edu/
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Hold your cursor over Museums, Click on Collection, Scroll Down
and then Click on Paintings.
Search for Still Life with Lemons, Oranges, and a Pomegranate, by
Hulsdonck, and Still Life with Apples by Paul Cezanne.
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What is the Gettys definition of Balance?
Name 3 ways visually that Hulsdonck has created a visually balanced composition:
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Which figure or figures did your eyes go to first in this painting?
How is Rembrandt using contrast to draw the viewers eye to the action in the foreground? Name
at least 3 ways.
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Search for Irisis, by Vincent van Gogh.
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What is the Gettys definition of Movement?
How is van Gogh creating a path for the viewers eye? And what is the focal point that he is
leading the viewer to?
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What are the Gettys definitions of Pattern and Repetition? How do these two similar elements
work together?
What object or element of design is repeating throughout this painting? How does this help to
visually unite Louis and his background?
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What is the Gettys definition of Proportion?
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Go to https://www.sophia.org/tutorials/design-in-art-repetition-pattern-and-rhythm
What is this websites definition of Rhythm and how does it relate it to music?
Create a doodle below with a sense of rhythm using only simple shapes.
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What is the Gettys definition of Unity?