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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

by John A Parks
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Rockport Publishers
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038 Harmony

Harmony is achieved in a work of art when the relationships between its elements are mutually beneficial and aesthetically pleasing.

In music, harmony is a result of certain mathematical relationships between notes. Mathematical relationships can also play a role in visual harmony when variations in shapes, areas, and angles have some sort of mathematical consistency. Similarly, colors that stand in an orderly relationship to each other within a theoretical color solid will tend to feel more harmonious than those in a disorderly relationship. However, perception of color can be influenced by a great many factors, including context, personal association, and minute variations in the color purity of pigments, all of which make a scientific ...

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ISBN: 9781631595431