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Organization
The order in a work of art is its organization.
The primary demands made of any organization are two:
It must make sense.
It must be interesting.
Plan
Can be called the skeleton of the work of art
It holds the work together.
Organic Structure
The interrelations of the elements of the plan unity and variety, or
repetition and contrast
The elements used must be repeated enough to become familiar
but varied enough in character to provide contrast.
Sistine Madonna
Raphael
Pyramidal
Symmetrical
Vertical
Radial
Pyramidal Plan
The pyramid is almost as common in painting as the symmetrical
plan is in architecture.
The broad base gives a sense of solidity, and the apex gives
emphasis.
Castelfranco Madonna
Giorgione
Mona Lisa
Leonardo Da Vinci
Symmetrical Plan
The two sides are similar and relatively equal.
This is a favorite plan in architecture, where the two sides are
identical.
Annunciation
Simone Martini
Vertical Plan
This plan consists of a single vertical figure or other object.
It is used greatly in sculpture.
David
Michelangelo
Thinker
Thomas Eakins
Radial Plan
The lines of the picture form radii which meet at a point in the
center.
Last Supper
Leonardo Da Vinci
Number 1
Jackson Pollock
Alpha-Pi
Morris Louis
Where
Morris Louis
Balance
Sense of equilibrium
Achieved by controlling the direction of lines
Symmetrical and asymmetrical balance
Dancers
Practicing at
the Bar
Edgar Degas
Strangers in Paris
Honor Daumier
The Mill
Jacob van Ruisdael
Proportion
Is the aspect of plan that has to do with the comparative size of the
parts of a single work
Frame
In an arrangement of parts, consideration must be given to the
frame and the relation of the parts to the frame.
Since the design must fill the shape, the choice of shape partly
determines the design of the picture.
Annunciation
Fra Angelico