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Some notes about color and design - F. Danziger
A common "first design class" lesson, is to place a box on a page, so that it looks "lonely"- and then to do another design which makes it look "agressive." The most common solutions to this are shown above. Students do not have to be "taught" how to do this, because instinct leads the way. What the exercise shows, however, is that we respond emotionally to spaces. IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE, what the image looks like. It makes a difference, how much space we leave around the figure.
Figure to ground relationship is a powerful tool. Consider the image of my father, below- a portrait I painted in 1988. The image on left has been altered, to, on the right, increase the ground. What difference does it make in the "voice" of the painting?
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Next-Color Wheels etc.
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