Floating past each other as people often do in life, only this time engaged and creating something together through collaboration and enjoying and caring for the ‘big nature’ they are surrounded by.”Ĭouncil said the mural is one of a number of public art initiatives budgeted for in the coming years. “ The children playing musical instruments are used to emphasise these ideas. “The inclusion of local native flora and fauna also represents caring for the nature at one’s doorstep so that future generations will inherit an environment that has been well cared for,” Dewar said. The mural was created in response to suggested themes of community and environment and is a metaphor symbolising people coming together to create something more than the sum of its part, according to the council. Titled ‘Harmony’ the artwork depicts native flora and fauna and children playing musical instruments. Whether it is lines, shapes, forms, colors, spaces, or textures, balance can give an artwork character, variety, and a harmonious feel. Balance is one of the principles of art and it works together with the elements of art, which gives it a multitude of methods in which to apply it. Also see chado, compare, eurythmy, feng shui, harmonic sequence, juxtaposition, music, pattern, rhythm, sublime, tension, unity, and variety.The Hume council-funded mural was painted on a wall at 413 Barry Road, Dallas by artist Hayden Dewar. Texture in Art Proportion in Art Harmony in Art. Artists on Art: From the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century, edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, 1945. Gaiety of tone is given by the luminous dominant of color, by the warm dominant of line, by lines above the horizontal.' Georges Seurat (1859-1891), French Neo-Impressionist painter, in a letter to Maurice Beaubourg, August 28, 1890. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and similar elements of tone, of color, and of line, considered according to their dominants, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

Paul C?zanne, Letters, edited by John Rewald, 1984. 'The secret of drawing and modeling resides in the contrasts and relationships of tone.' Paul C?zanne (1839-1906), French Post-Impressionist painter, in a letter to Emile Bernard. One has to learn to sing true with the pencil or brush, just as with the voice correct form is like correct sound.' Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French painter, advising his students in 1864. Notice all the different colors, lines, shapes, and brushwork. In this post, I cover: Below is a great demonstration of variety by Tom Thomson. It is the opposite of repetitive or monotonous use of the elements. All is harmony in nature, a little too much, or a little less, disturbs the scale and strikes a discordant note. Variety in art refers to the use of different qualities or instances of visual elements.

'If I could make musicians of you all, it would be to your advantage as painters. Richter, Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 'Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.' Plato (427?-327? BCE), Greek philosopher, The Republic, Book III, 40 'Do you not know that our soul is composed of harmony and that harmony is only produced when proportions of things are seen or heard simultaneously?.' Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter, engineer, anatomist, inventor. HAHR-mə-nee)Quote: 'Harmony consists of opposing tension, like that of the bow and the lyre.' Heraclitus (flourished in 500 BCE), Greek philosopher, On the Universe. This became Old French armonie, which emerged by the 14th century in English as armonye.(pr. The Latin harmonia, meaning agreement, joining together, as do the joints of an arm. Relieving this may be elements of contrast even of dissonance.In music harmony occurs when sounds complement each another when they come together.Harmony found its way into English from Greek and Latin, via French. It is often achieved through the use of repetition and simplicity.Excessive harmony leads to monotony, boredom. As a principle of design, harmony refers to a way of combining elements of art to accent their similarities and bind the picture parts into a whole. A composition is harmonious when the interrelationships between its parts fulfill aesthetic requisites or are mutually beneficial. A union or blend of aesthetically compatible components.

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