AD01_harmony

Composition Unit Eight 10
PRINCIPLE:
HARMONY (CONTINUED)
In this painting I harmonized the red
shapes of the buildings, the umbrella
and even the signature by using the
same red hue.
Color harmony (continued)
In the following painting by Joan Miró, the red elements are
all very different. They have different shapes, some are
rectangular in shape, such as A and B, and some are circular in
shape, such as C. They also have different sizes: some shapes
are large, such as D, and some shapes are small, such as E.
However Miró has brought all of these elements into harmony
by painting them with hues that are harmonious (red and red
orange). There are also two shapes that stand out in the
painting: the thin yellow shape F at the bottom and the orange
shape G at the top. These shapes are different in both size and
shape, but are harmonized by color since their hues (yellow,
and yellow orange) are adjacent to each other on the color
wheel.
C
E
D
Raybould Cat. 894.
A
G
In this painting there is a harmony of
function in that the objects are all used
for cooking.
B
F
Miró Cat. 9779.
Function harmony
Stupica Cat. 9514.
There is a harmony between different objects that are
commonly associated by their use. For example:
♦ a plate and a knife and fork
♦ a bottle and a cork
♦ an ear of wheat and some fruit
Paintings that contain these objects will have a form of
harmony.
Zakharov Cat. 8326.
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