Lecture and Reading Summation 8/27/10

Composition is defined by how we perceive any given item. When we break it down, composition can be found within a written work, music, nature, theatre, dance, and of course the visual arts. As we delve deeper into this concept, composition can be broken even further into seven components. This list includes,

• point
• line
• shape
• color
• texture
• space
• value

Through these elements there is rhythm and harmony in a piece of work that keeps any viewer/listener involved. Some of them would be discord, disonence, contrast, variational distort, clashing, suspence, curiosity, tension and lastly anticipation. Without these emotions and feelings in a piece, it is hardly a piece of art at all.

Gestalt's Theory states, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

Proximity is the relationship between two entities. Similarity is how alike any two parts are when compared with one another. Continuance is how something lasts in sequence. Closure is the whole that completes the idea.

The last information that was discussed was about form. This is the sum total of the objects physical characteristics. When the meaning and content is what we know about the given form. Such as color or that something is shiny. With our exercise to examine our natural object and the strip of cardboard we will go into much greater detail about what form and meaning is all about.