![]() 2 Michelangelo's statue of David might be more persuasive in the case for harmony, in the engineering of the stance. This might result from the colour scheme, or the near symmetry of the design with Venus front and centre and the figures almost rotating around her in a vortex. Much of your feeling of pleasure from the aesthetic and design could come from a familiarity with Renaissance art and it's conventions of beauty. You can click on each image to enlarge and see it in it's proper dimensions.ġ A lot of people find Botticelli's Birth of Venus beautiful and harmonious. The following images attempt in the gallery below attempt to illustrate examples of harmony/unity. The image might look more harmonious as a result. You can click on an image below for a larger view with correct image proportions and composition. You might like to browse art images yourself, find ones you like, copy and paste them to a file and think about why the images you selected might suggest harmony of art elements and design principles. I have picked the examples and then tried to say why I think they might be harmonious. It has been a struggle for me to find a few images to represent harmony, so if you look at the images below and think, 'I don't see the harmony in these' you might be quite justified. The first set of pipes were called Syrinx and the sexually frustrated Pan would play them for their haunting.haunted actually.sound. They turned her into reeds which Pan then made pan pipes out of. Interestingly, pan pipes were created by the Greek god Pan, after the chaste goddess Syrinx asked river nymphs for help. It allows at least two sounds to be emitted and, in a sense, harmonize with each other creating rich satisfying voice. This is apparently caused in birds by a different vocal mechanism than humans and mammals called a syrinx. Even the simple ones have an extraordinary resonance. Search any of these birds on YouTube if you want to see them and hear their sound. ![]() When I was child in the UK it was the Blackbird, closely related to our Robin, which was the most conspicuous and beautiful songbird. Here on the west coast we have the Varied Thrush, which emits just a simple series of trills. Their song consists of flute like trilling and singing. Many bird lovers consider the thrush family to be the some of the most beautiful sound makers. ![]() I think just watching it explains a lot about what harmony can do both in music, art and design. Click the link here: īefore leaving the idea of harmony expressed in music and sound, here's another thing to consider. But in the short musical sequence, a harmony between the two people and the two instruments is established briefly. ![]() They represent two classes in society at profound dis-ease the city boys represent those who are destroying the country boys and their way of life, and in the movie, which is a classic thriller, the country boys threaten to kill the city boys. There is an undercurrent of profound hostility in the idea of the guitar and banjo duelling the film will in fact be a battle of wits between the canoeists and the people on the land. For a spectacular deployment of the concept of harmony take a look at this film clip from the movie Deliverance, a story about some well-to-do middle class city businessmen taking a canoe trip down a river about to be dammed that will damn the landscape that dirt poor rustic hillbillies supplement their meagre existence from. There is no harmony between these urban and rural peoples. In music harmony is the sound of two or more discrete notes that sound pleasant together, that 'harmonize', as with a duet of voices. For example, in film, a scene might be deliberately made to be aesthetically displeasing or downright disturbing in order to unnerve us. Always consider that the principles of design can be twisted or ignored for the purposes of communication. For example, there might be a pleasing aesthetic balance between unity and variety. No individual part is more important than the design of the whole. Achieving harmony is considered to be a primary goal of design. Harmony in a design means that all of the art elements and principles of design relate to and compliment each other. However, being familiar with the words and the concepts that hang on them might allow us to be more thoughtful when creating or reviewing work, individually, but most especially in a group. Harmony might be considered an umbrella concept for all of the design principles. What constitutes harmony for one person might be different for another.
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