Favorite Photo

From the gallery "Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta," the first photo is my favorite. I enjoy how music was a really big thing back then. I think it's really interesting the older generation is teaching the younger generation how to play guitar. It makes me happy seeing them enjoying themselves. Overall, this picture has a lot of powerful meaning.

Principles of Design - Rhythm

Movie Monday Questions - Gordon Parks Part 3&4

1. Feel accomplished and happy.
2. I gave up happiness.
3. He gave up the stability of his personal life. 
4. Chinese diplomat. 
5. $5,000
6. $5 million
7. If he took the money, Elijah Muhammad would control him.
8. It was the first Hollywood film produced and directed by an African American.
9. He was African American.
10. He used film, photography, and writing.
11. It felt like she was in a "washing machine." She never knew what was going to happen next, and it also set back her career. 
12. 12 Years A Slave
13. He was Gordon Parks' son.
14. Didn't have one.
15. He was equal.

Principles of Design - Proportion

Principles of Design - Repetition

Principles of Design - Pattern

Principles of Design - Movement

Movement 

Movement is the path the viewer’s eye takes through the work of art, often to focal areas. Such movement can be directed along lines, edges, shape, and color within the work of art.

Principles of Design - Emphasis

Emphasis

Emphasis is the part of the design that catches the viewer’s attention. Usually the artist will make one area stand out by contrasting it with other areas. The area could be different in size, color, texture, shape, etc.

Principles of Design - Balance

Balance

Balance is the distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space. If the design was a scale, these elements should be balanced to make a design feel stable. In symmetrical balance, the elements used on one side of the design are similar to those on the other side; in asymmetrical balance, the sides are different but still look balanced. In radial balance, the elements are arranged around a central point and may be similar.

Elements of Art - Texture

Texture

Texture is the surface quality that can be seen and felt. Textures can be rough or smooth, soft or hard. Textures do not always feel the way they look; for example, a drawing of a porcupine may look prickly, but if you touch the drawing, the paper is still smooth.

Elements of Art - Color

Color

Color is light reflected off of objects. Color has three main characteristics: hue (the name of the color, such as red, green, blue, etc.), value (how light or dark it is), and intensity (how bright or dull it is). 

• White is pure light; black is the absence of light. 

• Primary colors are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All other colors are mixes of primary colors. 

• Secondary colors are two primary colors mixed together (green, orange, violet). 

• Intermediate colors, sometimes called tertiary colors, are made by mixing a primary and secondary color together. Some examples of intermediate colors are yellow green, blue green, and blue violet. 

• Complementary colors are located directly across from each other on the color wheel (an arrangement of colors along a circular diagram to show how they are related to one another). Complementary pairs contrast because they share no common colors. For example, red and green are complements, because green is made of blue and yellow. When complementary colors are mixed together, they neutralize each other to make brown.

Elements of Art - Space

Space

Space is the area between and around objects. The space around objects is often called negative space; negative space has shape. Space can also refer to the feeling of depth. Real space is three-dimensional; in visual art, when we create the feeling or illusion of depth, we call it space.

Elements of Art - Forms

Forms

Forms are three-dimensional shapes expressing length, width, and depth. Balls, cylinders, boxes, and pyramids are forms.

Elements of Art - Line

Line

Line is a mark with greater length than width. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; straight or curved; thick or thin.

Elements of Art - Shape

Shape 

Shape is a closed line. Shapes can be geometric, like squares and circles; or organic, like free-form or natural shapes. Shapes are flat and can express length and width. 

Movie Monday Questions - Gordon Parks Part 1&2

1. Gordon was supposed to die soon after death, but the doctor managed to save him.
2. Fort Scott, Kansas.
3. There are only a few black student that go to college.
4. 15.
5. The streets.
6. When he became older.
7. Taking photo of models.
8. Double exposure is a fatal error in photos caused by light exposure
9. Heavyweight boxing champion.
10. Piano.
11. To chronicle the dark side of Chicago's South Side.
12. To take pictures like the American Gothic.
13. Photographer from the FSA.
14. Gordon's imagination.
15. A lot of things.