Relief Block Printmaking

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Relief Block Printmaking
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• Using Rhythm and Balance
• in your Design

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Printmaking

• Objective
• Students will plan, design, and create a relief
  print Asymmetrical Balance, Progressive Rhythm,
  mixing tints or shades of a hue, and follow
  safety procedures.

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Creating the Design Using Rhythm
What is Rhythm?

• In Music, Rhythm is the beat we feel and hear
  when we listen to music.

So, Rhythm is the repetition of a beat.
In Art, what is Rhythm?
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Creating the Design Using Rhythm

• In Art, Rhythm is the repetition of an element of
  art in a pattern, to make the work seem active

Line
Shape
Roy Lichtenstein, Modern Painting with Clef,
1964. http//www.gallerywalk.org/RL_ModPtg_wClef.j
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Texture
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Space
Form
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Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1951 http//www.ran
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Creating the Design Using Rhythm
Line
Shape
Roy Lichtenstein, Modern Painting with Clef,
1964. http//www.gallerywalk.org/RL_ModPtg_wClef.j
pg
Texture
vanGough, Starry Night, 1884. http//photos.oes.or
g/albums/userpics/10002/Starry_Night-Vincent_VanGo
gh(1152x864).jpg
Space
Form
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Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936. http//www.sapdesig
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Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1951 http//www.ran
d.org/randeurope/images/theme_arts2.jpg
How is it shown?
What element of art is not listed?
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Creating the Design Using Rhythm

• Review In Art, what is Rhythm?
• Rhythm is the repetition of an element of art in
  a pattern, to make the work seem active.
• Three Types of Rhythm
• Regular
• Alternating
• Progressive Rhythm

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Types of Rhythm
Regular Rhythm very simple regular one-beat
rhythm
A visual example of Regular Rhythm would be a
series of identical circles repeated one after
the other
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Regular Rhythm
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Types of Rhythm
Alternating Rhythm a regular series of visual
changes
Visual example circle square, circle
square, circle square.
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Alternating Rhythm
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Types of Rhythm
Progressive Rhythm is a pattern of progressive
changes in a repeated element
Visual example a series of squares, each
slightly larger than another
What is the repeated element?
How is the element changing to make progressive
rhythm?
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Progressive Rhythm
a pattern of progressive changes in a repeated
element
What is the repeated element?
What is the progressive change?
So, what is the pattern or progressive rhythm?
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Progressive Rhythm
a pattern of progressive changes in a repeated
element
What is the repeated element?
What is the progressive change?
How is there progressive rhythm in this work?
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Progressive Rhythm
A pattern of progressive changes in a repeated
element

Wayne Thiebaud, Banana Splits
Yellow Submarine, Sea of Holes.
How is there progressive rhythm?
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Progressive Rhythm
A pattern or rhythm that develops step by step
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Balance

• Symetrical Balance
• Asymetrical Balance
• Radial Balance

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Asymmetrical Balance
A type of visual balance in which the two sides
of a composition are different yet balanced. The
two sides are equal without being just the same.
Symmetrical
Asymmetrical
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Asymmetrical Balance
GeorgesSeurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island Le
Grand Jatte, 1884-6. http//www.artchive.com/artch
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This is also called informal balance. It
involves placement of objects in a way that will
allow objects of varying visual weight to balance
out each other. Here the larger figures to the
right are balanced by the many smaller figures to
the left. There is also balance of shadow and
light.
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Progressive Rhythm
A pattern or rhythm that develops step by step
While this is a nice drawing, it doesnt use
asymmetrical balance nor progressive rhythm YET.
Drawing by Nick Bauer
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Progressive Rhythm
Suggestions First, bring person higher toward
top left hand corner.
Doing this would change the balance toward an
asymmetrical design.
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Progressive Rhythm
Suggestions Next, use the soccer ball to show a
progression
progression in size from smaller to larger.
Nicks drawing altered to demonstrate
asymmetrical balance progressive rhythm
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Progressive Rhythm
Suggestions Or, still using the soccer ball
to show progression
progression in color from dull to bright.
Nicks drawing altered to demonstrate
asymmetrical balance progressive rhythm
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Student Work Examples
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Student Work Examples
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Student Work Examples
Progressive Rhythm, but not Asymmetrical Balance
What type of Balance is shown?
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Student Work Examples
Rhythm, but not Progressive Rhythm
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Student Work Examples
Asymmetrical Balance, but not Progressive Rhythm
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Student Work Examples
Does this work have Asymmetrical Balance? Or
Progressive Rhythm?
Detail too small to be carved effectively
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Student Work Examples
Asymmetrical Balance, and Progressive Rhythm