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Chapter 1.7
Scale and Proportion
PART 1FUNDAMENTALS
Copyright © 2011 Thames & Hudson
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PART 1FUNDAMENTALS
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Chapter 1.7 Scale and Proportion
Scale
Artists make conscious choices about the scale of their work when they consider the message they want to put across
A small-scale work implies intimacy
Large-scale works communicate big ideas directed at a large audience
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1.126 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Mistos (Match Cover), 1992. Steel, aluminum, fiber-reinforced plastic, painted with polyurethane enamel, 68' x 33' x 43’4”. Collection La Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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1.127 Robert Lostutter, The Hummingbirds, 1981. Watercolor on paper, 1¾ x 5⅝”. Collection of Anne and Warren Weisberg
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PART 1FUNDAMENTALS
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Chapter 1.7 Scale and Proportion
Hierarchical Scale
The deliberate use of relative size in a work of art, in order to communicate differences in importance
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1.128 slide 1: Relief from the northern wall of the hypostyle hall at the great temple of Amun, 19 th Dynasty, c. 1295–1186 BCE.
Karnak, Egypt
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1.128 slide 2: Hierarchical scale: Relief from the northern wall of the hypostyle hall at the great temple of Amun, 19th Dynasty, c. 1295–1186 BCE.
Karnak, Egypt
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1.129 Jan van Eyck, Madonna in a Church, 1437–8. Oil on wood panel, 12⅝ x 5½”. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
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PART 1FUNDAMENTALS
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Chapter 1.7 Scale and Proportion
Distorted Scale
An artist may deliberately distort scale to create an abnormal or supernatural effect
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1.130 Dorothea Tanning, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1943. Oil on canvas, 16⅛ x 24”. Tate, London
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PART 1FUNDAMENTALS
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Chapter 1.7 Scale and Proportion
Proportion
The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its proportions
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PART 1FUNDAMENTALS
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Chapter 1.7 Scale and Proportion
Human Proportion
Carefully chosen proportion can make an art object seem pleasing to the eye
This goes for the human body, too
The ancient Egyptians used the palm of the hand as a unit of measurement
The ancient Greeks sought an ideal of beauty in the principle of proportion
The models used by the Greeks for calculating human proportion were later adopted by artists of ancient Rome, and then by Renaissance artists
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PART 1FUNDAMENTALS
Chapter 1.7 Scale and Proportion
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
1.132 Ancient Egyptian system using the human hand as a standard unit of measurement
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1.133 Nigerian Ife artist, Figure of Oni, early 14th–15th century. Brass with lead, 18⅜” high. National Museum, Ife, Nigeria
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1.136 Poseidon (or Zeus), c. 460–450 BCE. Bronze, 6’10½” high. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
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1.137 Diagram of proportional formulas used in the statue