What is 'balance by eye direction'?
Explanation
Balance by eye direction is a subtle but powerful tool. It creates a 'psychic line' between figures, and this invisible connection can have enough visual weight to balance a more prominent or heavy element on the other side of the composition.
Other questions
What is the fundamental principle of balance in visual art as described in the chapter's introduction?
In assessing pictorial balance, what do we always assume exists, which functions as the fulcrum on a scale or seesaw?
According to the chapter, for what reason might an artist purposefully create a sense of imbalance in a work?
In terms of vertical balance, what are we accustomed to seeing that results in a feeling of stability and calmness?
What is described as the simplest type of balance, both to create and to recognize?
What is another term for symmetrical balance, where one side of a composition is the mirror image of the other?
What term is used to describe the static quality that conscious symmetrical repetition can create?
Why is symmetrical balance often exploited in the design of government monuments and public buildings?
Which artwork discussed in the chapter turns a mountain landscape into a symmetrical shape and superimposes a palindrome, the verbal equivalent of bilateral symmetry?
What is the defining characteristic of asymmetrical balance?
The chapter uses a children's riddle to explain the essence of asymmetrical balance. What does this riddle compare?
What is another, more casual term for asymmetrical balance?
In Haim Steinbach's sculpture 'supremely black', how does the artist create an asymmetric arrangement?
What is the principle of achieving asymmetrical balance by value?
In Mary Cassatt's painting 'Offering the Panale to the Bullfighter', which two elements are described as balancing each other through value and color?
How can balance be achieved using texture and pattern?
In Katsushika Hokusai's woodcut 'South Wind, Clear Dawn', what elements balance the large, simple, red mountain shape?
What principle of physics is applied to design in the concept of 'balance by position'?
In Aubrey Beardsley's illustration 'Garçons de Café', how is the group of three figures on the left balanced?
In Fra Angelico's 'The Annunciation', what two elements work together to offset the visual weight of the angel's prominent wings?
How is the composition of Caravaggio's 'The Calling of St. Matthew' described in the 'Analysis Summary' section?
Garry Winogrand's photograph 'White Sands National Monument' is described as a play between which two types of balance?
What is the definition of radial balance?
Which of the following is given as an example of an object from the natural world that exhibits radial balance?
In architecture, which features are mentioned as examples of designs that employ radial balance?
What symbolic function does radial balance often have in cultural and spiritual designs?
What is the defining characteristic of crystallographic balance?
What is the more common name for crystallographic balance?
In Adeline Harris Sears' 'Signature Quilt', how is the principle of crystallographic balance demonstrated?
How is the bookshelf designed by Josef Albers described in the introduction?
What creates the subtle balance in Henri Rivière's 'Funeral under Umbrellas', which at first seems to have all its visual weight on one side?
In Philip Guston's painting 'Transition', what compositional choices create the effect of a 'transition'?
What visual effect is created when the main distribution of weight or visual interest is placed high up in the format?
The manipulation of a photograph of Audrey Hepburn, where her right side is flipped to replace her left, is used to illustrate what concept?
In Hiroshi Sugimoto's photograph of a movie theater, 'U.A. Play House', what is the primary effect of the bilateral symmetry of the architecture?
In Margaret Wharton's sculpture 'Mocking Bird', where does the symmetry of the final birdlike form originate?
In Nan Goldin's photograph 'Siobhan with a Cigarette', how is the composition, which is not off balance, maintained?
In Aubrey Beardsley's 'Garçons de Café', what is the effect of the figures' white aprons on the composition's balance?
In the context of commercial design and page layouts, what visual role does a block of printed text often play?
The still-life painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 'Still Life: Corner of a Table', is described as having a surprising composition. What two elements balance each other in this work?
When working on a composition like a portrait, what technique can be useful to reveal a tilted bias that is otherwise 'invisible' to the eye?
Josiah McElheny's sculpture 'An End to Modernity' is used as an example of radial balance. What is the sculpture modeled on?
How does Jasper Johns's painting 'Map' achieve an allover pattern effect despite its irregular structure?
In the hallway of the United States Holocaust/Memorial Museum by Ralph Appelbaum, how is a sense of balance and commemoration achieved with the wall of photographs?
The analysis of Picasso's 'Harlequin' in the introduction describes the composition as being balanced as if the shapes were hung from a single point. What part of the figure does this fulcrum run through?
In the advertisement poster featuring a pitcher by William Bailey, what subtle element, revealed in the 'empty' area, suggests that what we see first is not the whole story?
What term best describes the type of balance used in Bernini's high altar for St. Peter's, which is situated in perfect symmetry within the basilica's architecture?
In the sculpture 'supremely black' by Haim Steinbach, how many black pitchers balance the three red detergent boxes?
Crystallographic balance, or allover pattern, is described as a special refinement of which other type of balance?