Useful table Dr Flude provided
One way to develop visual awareness and control is to isolate basic elements and principles of visual design and try to understand how they interact. Dr Flude touched on visual elements during lecture. As such, I will move on to visual principles.
Here is one photo by a famous photographer:
Children over a Fibonacci Spiral Staircase by Henri Cartier-Bresson
On top of achieving a visually appealing composition via the Fibonacci spiral, Cartier-Bresson managed to capture rhythm in this photograph by using multiple children in a "repetitive circular setting". Rhythm indicates movement by the repetition of elements, and can make an artwork seem active.
This style of photography can also be seen in various photographs by popular local Instagrammers.
Here are more examples that exhibit rhythm, pattern, and even colour:
"A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop." [source]
Visual principles of pattern and rhythm are present in fractals.
In Architecture:
In Nature:
- ODDEE
Next. tenebrism is a style of painting developed by Caravaggio and other 17th-century Spanish and Italian artists, characterized by predominantly dark tones and shadows with dramatically contrasting effects of light; it is a style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image.
Chiaroscuro lighting is also often used in film, film noir in particular.
Excerpt from Blackmail by Alfred Hitchcock
Light and shadow are often indicative of characters' inner psychological state. In this excerpt, it is clear that after killing the man, the woman has descended into darkness and crime.
Here, she steps into the shadows.
Again, she is enveloped in darkness.
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