Form and style in visual arts (week 3 readings)

In terms of senses we classify types of design as visual, auditory and audiovisual.

1.Visual, static, surface design is a two dimensional design, sometimes slightly curved or in the form of a polyhedral surface. The basic elements of this design are colour,  line, and texture. This design has three subcategories.

-Strip design: long and narrow, is is extended mostly in one dimension lengthwise as in ribbons. borders, and architectural mouldings. This type of design can give an illusion of a 3D design.

-Bounded-area design is a design limited within a 2D given area. This type can also be flat or slightly three dimensional as i paintings. it can be asymmetrical, irregular, and free-flowing suggesting moods attitudes.

-Allover design is unbounded in two dimensions with a tendency to indefinite repetition or prolongation in two dimensions and four directions. In this type of design units are not arranged along a single main axis but they flow allover the background. this type of design has no beginning and no end.

2.Visual, static, solid design is three dimensionally presented. It may have thickness. depth, length, breadth, and consists in different solid parts. There is more to solid masses, boids and surface shapes.

-Exterior design, viewed from the outside. The object may present many different points of view, as opaque, solid parts fall into different arrangements.

-Interior design, surrounding or partly surrounding the observer, as in rooms, buildings, gardens,etc.

-A combination of the two, the connection between interior and exterior design. the rose window contributes as a facade as seen from in front.

-Intermediate between surface and solid design is a sculptural relief depending on the amount of three dimensional development.

3.Visual, mobile, temporally design has two categories.

-Mobile surface design is a thematic which develops in time as well as it changes may be in motion in a determinate sequence. it includes motion pictures, shadow plays, lumia or mobile colour, all presented as flat images on flat or curving surfaces.

-Mobile solid design presents a solid figure in a more or less determinate motion.

Auditory design, depending on the hearing senses, it may or ay not be combined with mobile visual design. Thomas divides this category in three other subcategories.

1.Musical design is based on a thematic development of rhythm, pitch, timbre, consonance, dissonance etc. and on developed components such as melody, tempo, meter, dynamics etc.

2.Word-sound design is presented aurally when literature is spoken, and thus resembles music to some extent.

3.Verbal-music design is a combination of music and word-sound design as in songs, oratorios, and operas.

 Audiovisual design also with two subdivisions.

1-Audiovisual surface design combines patterns of mobile visual with music, word-sound or both.

2. Audiovisual solid design is produced by combining mobile sound patterns with auditory ones, as in dance and ballet with music.

Suggested thematic development design. The list distinguishes types of design mainly on basis of presentative development, according to the sense primarily addressed and the way in which the presented factor is developed in space, time, or both.


     


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