![]() If you want more painting tips, check out my Painting Academy course. I appreciate it! Feel free to share with friends. Thanks for taking the time to read this post. Painting Academy – My fundamentals course.On the Easel: Fraser Island, High Key, September 2020.Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Not related to painting but has some interesting takes on chaos and harmony in life.What You Can Learn from These 10 Dramatic Paintings – Paintings that lean towards chaos.A Closer Look at Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge Series – Paintings that lean towards harmony.But by itself, it’s a story of both chaos and harmony. My Fraser Island, High Key represents harmony when compared to Fraser Island, Drama. Does your painting lean towards chaos or harmony? This way of thinking invites you to use both, not one or the other. Think of chaos and harmony on a scale, rather than absolutes.The relationship between warm and cool colors.ĭan Scott, Tree, Dappled Light, 2020 Key Takeaways. ![]() The balance between large ambient space and small dark accents.The energetic brushwork and scumbled color.The battle between the stygian black train and nature’s foggy atmosphere.Let’s run through some other examples, starting with Joseph Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway. But the artist is born to pick and choose… that the result may be beautiful – as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony…” James Abbott McNeill Whistler Other Examples of Chaos and Harmony in Art “Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. James Whistler suggests in the following quote that chaos is the baseline and it’s up to artists to bring forth glorious harmony. Does my painting lean towards chaos or harmony? This way of thinking invites the use of both chaos and harmony, not one or the other. I like to think of them on a scale, rather than as absolutes. Harmony without chaos is boring it’s a blank canvas. It’s important to note that chaos and harmony need each other. Harmony is the relationship between warm and cool the balance between sky and sea the repetition and structure of the jetty the patterns created by the sky and clouds. It’s a battle of light against gritty darkness, warm against cool.Ĭhaos in this case is the rough brushwork and palette knife strokes the vague jetty the turbulent water. It captures the vibrant sunset from the end of the jetty. It’s when you place the right color in the right place (credit to Richard Schmid for writing something along these lines).įraser Island, Drama (below) leans towards chaos, especially compared to its subtle counterpart. It’s the blues, greens, and purples in Claude Monet’s water lilies series. ![]() Harmony is connection, expectation, pattern, repetition, relationships. It’s the subject moving whilst you’re painting. It’s that burst of activity amongst a quiet background. “The mural program has been undertaken with the aim of using public art to advance a strong sense of community ownership, wellbeing and safety,” the council said.Ī second mural will soon be commissioned in Dobell Place, Dallas.So much of art can be distilled down to a basic conflict between chaos and harmony.Ĭhaos is unexpected, unwanted, unknown. Floating past each other as people often do in life, only this time engaged and creating something together through collaboration and enjoying and caring for the ‘big nature’ they are surrounded by.”Ĭouncil said the mural is one of a number of public art initiatives budgeted for in the coming years. “ The children playing musical instruments are used to emphasise these ideas. “The inclusion of local native flora and fauna also represents caring for the nature at one’s doorstep so that future generations will inherit an environment that has been well cared for,” Dewar said. The mural was created in response to suggested themes of community and environment and is a metaphor symbolising people coming together to create something more than the sum of its part, according to the council. Titled ‘Harmony’ the artwork depicts native flora and fauna and children playing musical instruments. ![]() Whether it is lines, shapes, forms, colors, spaces, or textures, balance can give an artwork character, variety, and a harmonious feel. Balance is one of the principles of art and it works together with the elements of art, which gives it a multitude of methods in which to apply it. The Hume council-funded mural was painted on a wall at 413 Barry Road, Dallas by artist Hayden Dewar. Texture in Art Proportion in Art Harmony in Art.
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