This image is a good example of the hierarchical triangle. The girl in the picture is the most important figure. She is the largest figure, and she looks like she is the caretaker of the two boys. Both of the boys are subordinate to her because they are smaller and they are looking up to her. The […]
This is a work made by Barry McGee. Barry McGee is a street artist who also paints large murals on walls in galleries. This is a great example of color schemes, unity and variety, Gestalt, and spacial or kinetic illusion. Barry McGee has put almost every type of color scheme in this picture. It has […]
This image is a good example of color, hierarchy, and dominance. The color scheme is a triad. The image consists of reds, blues, and yellows. Red is the dominant color, yellows are the subordinate, and the blue is accentual. The reds and yellows are most evident in the fire and the animal in the front. […]
This picture of the Start Wars characters is a perfect example of the hierarchical triangle. The most important character in the movie, Luke Skywalker, is in the foreground of the picture. He is also the biggest person in the image. He is the dominant figure. Princess Leia and Han Solo are the subordinate characters in the movie […]
This picture is a perfect example of an analogous color scheme. Analogous color schemes consist of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel such as green, light green, and yellow or red, orange and yellow. This picture has reds, yellows, and greens. The dominant color is green, the subordinate color is yellow […]
This is another image by Kara Walker. It is a very good example of negative and positive space and dominant, subordinate, and accentual shapes. This piece of art work is mostly negative space but your eye is immediately drawn to the black on the page because there is very little of it. Even though […]
This is a photo by Annie Leibowitz. She is one of the best photographers that I have ever seen because she knows how to create tension in her photos and she thinks outside the box. This is her newer version of The Wizard of Oz. What this picture is an example of is color/color schemes and […]
This image from the Renaissance has an excellent example of hierarchy. This image uses triangular hierarchy. What triangular hierarchy does is it arranges the elements in a triangular shape to indicate importance or dominance. The tip of the triangle is the baby and it extends back to the women behind it. since the baby is the tip of […]
This is the Palette of King Narmer. Most of the Egyptian art has unknown authors because it was commissioned for the Gods. The Palette of King Narmer is a great example of dominance and heirarchy. On the front, King Narmer is the figure in the middle of the object and he is being protected […]
This image by Kara Walker is a great example of dominant, subordinate, and accentual shapes. This artwork has many dominant, subordinate, and accentual shapes. Even though some of the shapes are very similar in size, they have different shapes and negative and positive spaces so they aren’t symmetrical. The blood spurts coming out of […]