Interesting Art Work no Focal Point

This piece of art is by by Shari Ulman. Each square has an icon. Notice how she kept a balance in terms of the icons. Most of the icons have different scales. It depended where she had it in this piece of art. Some are very small and solid colors, while others are extended beyond the square with texture. This is all done to keep the balance equally in this piece of art. If you notice how this piece of art doesn’t have a focal point inside it. You can say the piece of art as whole is a focal point. The reason behind this is that the designer used grid to keep the art work balanced. When you use a grid, it creates unity as a whole. That’s why you see the whole picture as a focal point. Looking at the colors in each square, you see some are solid while others are striped. They’re done in this way to keep this piece of art work balanced with the icons that are on them. Notice that the solid square colors have texture icon on it, while the striped squares have solid color icon. Using variety of different icons made this piece of art work interesting.

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