Unity, Asymmetrical balance and scale Assignment# 2

1)      In art, Unity occurs when all the elements of a piece are combine to make a balance, harmony or a wholeness. Artists unify their artwork with repetition of size, shape and colors to create a variety in art.

In this piece of art by Otto Freundlich called “The Unity of Life and Death”, Otto shows a unification of colors and shapes, where the hue colors such as grey, white, black, red, green and so on complement each other making a balance between the intermediate hues. He plays with the shapes of squares and rectangles creating other shapes on top of those with the colors. This is a clear example of art unification making shapes, sizes and colors be a wholeness.

2)      In most of the cases artists create asymmetrical balance by making their images look different from left to right according to their size and meaning around a felt or implied center of gravity. For example, the image below represent an asymmetrical balance in colors; where the color black is complemented with white. Meanwhile, the round shape of the plate is well balanced with the red of the chilly and the round cut of the yellow mango. This shows us the viewers a warmer color where the visibility of this gives us a closer look. This is a well balance asymmetrical picture.

3)      When it comes to art scale are really important, because this make us feel the impression that an images or sculpture is real or bigger/tinier than us.

For some human beings bigger is better, big is more... this call the attention of every person in the world. However, they are exceptions in life where people prefer no smaller, but let say tiny thing to create a big piece of art. When it comes to show the public scale everyone has its own preference in art. However, most of the artists choose big scale to represent the power and the funniness of their art. In this image we can see how a clip is used to grab the earth or soil to make us feel the impression that this piece of clip is really tight and also making this piece of art funny as we see it.