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What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

In an oil painting work, the layout of the work is balanced like a platoon, and it is necessary to pay attention to the overall concept of the overall situation and uniformly grasp the overall layout of the oil painting work.

What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

Whether the layout of oil painting works can be balanced is the key to the entire oil painting system, and it is the primary premise and foundation of the entire oil painting process.

What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

👆 In one of Degas's works, the painter adopts a vertical layout, pushing the focus of the figure to the upper right position of the picture, from the perspective of the plane, the figure occupies a smaller area, while the front table and the ground occupy a relatively large area.

The painter maintains the balance between the front and back from the perspective space, obviously the painter has a careful observation of life, and the work itself is not only a unique novelty of the layout, but also reveals his inner emotional state, and finally achieves the balance of the picture layout.

What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

👆 In the layout of Arika's work, from the perspective of the plane of the picture, the picture is arranged by four large shapes, the P shape is the focus shape in the picture, it and the A shape and the B shape are vertical shapes, and the horizontal C forms the potential relationship of the picture, and the four base shapes maintain the balance relationship of the picture.

What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

2. Static balance and dynamic balance;

From the perspective of dynamic and static arrangement of the picture, the large layout of the picture can be divided into static layout arrangement and dynamic layout arrangement.

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper 👇 serves as a representative of analysis;

What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

👇 From the simple plane analysis of the upper and lower structures, the overall large-scale distribution of "The Last Supper" and the balanced relationship of the layout it forms.

What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

A1, A2 and A3 form a vertical structure with a large area, which weighs heavily on the horizontal structure of B and C, especially makes the B shape of the horizontal structure more stable, in line with the painter's intentional choice of painting subject matter, and maintains the unity and balance of the picture as a whole.

👆 More is derived from the analysis of the balance relationship between the left and right structures of the picture, with the visual focus of the picture red shape P as the balance fulcrum of the entire picture, and the relationship between the left and right is relatively balanced, maintaining a large situation stability.

From the analysis of the equilibrium relationship of deep space, the strong perspective relationship behind the visual focus P and the visual focus itself are unified with each other. The final perspective point is also mapped to P, which maintains the unity of depth and the balance and stability of the front and back from the vision of space.

👆 Of course, here is not to focus P as the balance fulcrum, the left and right sides should maintain absolute balance, but to visual focus P as the benchmark, the surrounding graphic relationship, to be arranged around a changing rhythm, and finally, especially with P, can form a meaningful potential opposition relationship and balance relationship.

What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

👆 The two sides of the visual focus are a balance of rhythm and changing laws.

Relatively stable, less variable static layout balance, more to consider the visual focus as the center, and the upper and lower parts around the visual center, and the left and right parts as chips to adjust the balance;

It is analyzed as a whole, and the potential relationship between the shapes of the overall picture is reasonably arranged, and a balanced relationship between the major shapes of the overall picture is maintained.

Source: Oil Painting Institute

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What is picture balance? | Oil painting basics

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