Reading Summary/Organizing principles

The Principles of Organization
- Three essential components of art: Subject, Form, and Content.
- Seven principles of organization
  - Harmony
  - Variety
  - Balance
  - Proportion
  - Dominance
  - Movement
  - Economy
- Develops the various elements and creating a sense of space.
- Visual unity - sense of visual opening
- Composition or design is usually a mix or intuition.

Harmony
- Pleasing relationship between different sections of composition
- Thought of as cohesion. Occurs when elements or independents parts have characteristics in common.
- Harmony through repetition.(resemblance)
- Type of rhythm depends on how often, they are repeated. Likeness( rough vs smooth surface textures), Directions ( Horizontal vs diagonal line), Type ( regular vs irregular shapes), value (dark vs light), Their size ( large vs small).
- Creation of rhythm relies on pauses
- variation in negative space helps create rhythmic pattern.
- Pause it negative visual
- Visual silence ( spacing)

Pattern
- Establish through repetition
- Allover pattern

Closure
- Whole greater than individual parts

Visual linking
- Closure unifies shapes that share an implied group relationship. Shared space itself becomes the cohesive factor.
- Shared edges - connecting or touching
- Overlapping - areas drawn together
- Transparency - Shape or image seen through another
- Interpenetration- Images pass through another

Variety
- Counterweight to harmony
- Contrast - Opposition or dissimilarity
- Contrast ( area more dominant)
- Elaboration - embellishment

Balance
- Gravitational equilibrium of a mark on the page
- Moments of force
- Symmetry
- Approximate symmetry
- Radial balance
- asymmetry
- Proportion
- Golden section to represent ideal standard for proportion

Dominance
- Emphasis of degree in various parts
- Isolation
- Placement
- Direction
- Scale
- Character

Movement
- Transition between optical units
- Intuitive space convey depth
- Implied and illusions

Economy
- Composing with efficiency expressing an idea as simply and directly as possible with no arbitrary or excessive use of the elements.

Tectonic - closed, massive, and simple
Atectonic - open, to a large degree