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Picture Structure (Principles (1) Gravity is a strongest physical force…

- - - - horizon line
        
        the floor
        
        the prairie
        
        a calm sea
      - because
        
        we humans are most stable when we are horizontal, because we can`t fall down when
      - example
        
        a triangle based on a flat base gives a feeling of stability
        
        the same triangle based on a diagonal gives a sense of movement
        
        floating triangle without any defined ground also feels different
        
        when we add more similar triangles of different size it feels like slew of arrows
        
        arrows
        
        bullets
        
        rocks
        
        missiles
    - - vertical line
        
        tree
        
        plant
      - because
        
        these structure requires a great deal of energy to build - to become vertical
        
        Vertical structures are monuments to kinetic energy of the past and the future, and to potential energy of the present
      - vertical lines + horizon line, placed across
        
        churches
        
        skyscrapers
    - - When we are high up, we are in a stronger tactical position; we can see our enemies and throw things down on them
        
        An object placed higher up on the page has "greater pictorial weight"
      - Down low, we can`t see very far; things might fall on us and crush us GROUND
        
        The bottom half of a picture feels more threatened, heavier, sadder, or more constrained; objects placed in the bottom also feel more "grounded" or "gloomier"
      - This is due to the force of gravity
    - - What happens when the focus of attention is shifted away from the center of the page?
        
        picture begins to be more dynamic
        
        the center can be used as a hub of picture, where ore intense action take place OR as an empty area
        
        our eyes now encouraged to move
        
        we are also aware of "breaking out of" the rectangular frame
      - What happens when the focus of attention is in the center of the page?
        
        figure in the center meant to be an object of meditation
        
        Tantric
        
        Christian
    - - the closer an object is to the edge or to the center, the greater the tension
        
        example: golf ball on a green
        
        when it sits comfortably far from hole: we just look at it
        
        but the closer it gets to the hole: the more we want to push it over the edge & in
    - - exceptions
        
        we would feel safer if we were escaping from some danger "under cover of darkness"
        
        we would feel terrified if we were deserted on limitless expance of ice
      - black: symbolizes unknown & all our fears associated with unknown
      - white signifies brightness & hope
      - at the same time black & white are "noncolors", & both represent death
        
        when Europeans mourn a persons death, they wear black
        
        People in India & Korea wear white
    - - pointed shapes
        
        knives
        
        arrows
        
        spears
        
        missles
        
        rocky mountains
      - rounded shapes
        
        rolling hills
        
        rolling seas
        
        boulders
        
        rivers
        
        earliest association: mother`s bodies
        
        when we were babies there was no place more secure & full of comfort
    - - One of the way to make protagonist - or a threat - appear strong is to make it VERY large
      - we associate size with strenght
  - - - we associate colors with certain natural objects
        
        red with blood & fire
        
        white with light, snow & bones
        
        black with darkness
        
        yellow with the sun
        
        blue with the sea & sky
      - fire, sun, sea, sky = "natural constants"
    - - same color within the picture frame
        
        we associate the same or similar colors much more strongly than we associate the same or similar shapes
        
        association example
        
        positive
        
        team players who all wear the same color uniform
        
        negative
        
        Little Red Riding Hood & wolf`s eye and tongue
  - - - some repetition give us a sense of security, in that we know what is coming next
        
        we could arrange our lives in largely repetitive shedules
        
        confusion is more frightening to most of us
        
        but "perfect" regularity - continual, relentless repetition - is perhaps even more horrifying in it`s monotony than confusion
        
        Akutagawa: "for me the worst hell - is a unending forest of cherry trees in full bloom"
  - - - the overlapping object "pierces" or "violates" the space of other, bu this also joins them together into a single unit
      - a sense of depth is created by placing the bases of progressively smaller / thinner and / or lighter objects gradually higher on the page
    - - a threat doesnt feel so scary when its right ext to victim, because there is no time to the victim to move before it get`s devoured - and no time to be scared
      - when attacker & the victim are spaced far apart, I, as victim, have more time to be scared
        
        there is more tension on the picture because the objects are "one edge"
  - - - What is the essence of the person / creature / thing I want to represent?
      - What specific elements in this situation evoke strong feelings in me?
      - How can I accentuate this?
      - What feelings do I want to evoke with this picture, and what principles might I use to do this?
    - - Does my picture communicate with task?
      - Have I used the principles to evoke the feeling I want?
- - - - 1) diagonal lines gives a feeling of a movement or tension to the picture
      - 2) shapes that lean toward the protagonist feel as though they are blocking or stopping forward progress
- - - - gives a sense of balance, because its three sides are equal
    - - it would feel nastier
    - - it would feel more immobile
    - - it would feel off balance
    - - we feel more scared when we are little and an attacker is big
      - if it would be to small
        
        reader stops identify with her
        
        distance make the heart grow colder - not fonder
- - - - he lean toward to protagonist
      - big
        
        little red riding hood is tiny in comprasion
        
        wolf body is half hidden
      - dark
      - triangles are so pointy & sharp
      - sharp white teeth
        
        sharp
        
        aggressively
        
        white
        
        they pop out at us more than simple black
      - lozenge shape eye
        
        it feels different when eye
        
        become red
        
        become mauve-color
        
        shape become equilateral triangle
        as a red hood
      - red tongue
        
        color echoes with red hood
      - darkened background
        
        mauve-color implies a nighttime
        
        nighttime feels scarier because we see poorly at night