UNITY AND HARMONY

Question 1

What is unity?

Answer 1

• Unity refers to the quality of wholeness or oneness that is achieved through the effective use of art elements and principles of design.
• Unity also helps the design to be seen as one design instead of randomness all around your design.

Question 2

Give and explain the ways by which unity is achieved.

Answer 2

1. Closure-
2. Proximity/closeness- achieved by clustering shapes and limiting negative spaces;
3. Continuance- arranging lines
   in a way that leads the viewer’s eye from one area to another,
4. Repetition- repeating objects and elements to unify the work of art.
5. Simplicity- comes from a good, simple design by the number of variation of an element.
6. Pattern-
7. Variety-

Question 3

What is repetition?

Answer 3

It is the use of one color and the repetition of the different art elements to add unity to the work.

Question 4

True or False. Unity also exists in variety.

Answer 4

True.

Question 5

How does Unity and Variety differ?

Answer 5

• Unity is a set of elements from the same family

- Variety comes from elements that are similar but not the same.

Question 6

What is harmony?

Answer 6

• The pleasing arrangement of elements or parts of the whole.
• when elements work together as a coherent role.