3.3: Course Content: Form and Proportion
Claes Oldenburg, 1988, Spoonbridge and Cherry, Retrieved from http://www.wikiart.org/en/claes-oldenburg/spoonbridge-and-cherry-collaboration-with-van-bruggen-1988
You were asked to think about how form and proportion work together and what impact they have on a piece of art.
Form is a three dimensional shape. It can be the illusion of something three dimensional such as a painting of a landscape with a house and a barn or it can be an actual form such as a sculpture or piece of pottery.
Proportion is the size of something compared to other things around it. Both can be used to show space and dimension within a piece of art. You are going to explore this further.
Use the following questions to guide your research:
- How does an artist create form in order to fool the eye?
- How is form similar and different to the element of art shape?
- How is proportion used to show distance in a piece of art?
- What is the golden mean and how is this related to proportion?
Here are some websites and videos to get you started:
Video from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DIPs3T2dQk
Video From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaiWSEEPGIA
The Virtual Instructor: http://thevirtualinstructor.com/form.html Links to an external site.
Cornell: http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/form/formillu.htm Links to an external site.