HW4

Artforum International, January 2014. Page 185
For todays blog post, I talk about the type of balance that is present in this painting above.  As mentioned in the book, there is symmetrical balance and asymmetrical balance.  In this case the painting above is an example of an asymmetrical balance.  I chose this composition because I liked how uniquely divided green and yellow were.  What makes this so asymmetrically balanced is the fact that the division between colors is not balanced.  There is a noticeable division between the top and bottom half of the composition so it would be easy to picture a balanced version of this piece, but it is easy to tell that the artist intentionally crafted this to be asymmetrical.

Besides the uneven division, the piece also has blotches of white on the top right corner as well as the top border of the piece.  One thing to point out is that a symmetrical division would typically have an even layer of coloring, meaning that each portion would be completely filled with a certain color.  Not only did the author not fill in each portion with a color, but the blotches themselves are also uneven.

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