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The document provides instructions for students to analyze a work of art for its use of dynamic symmetry, including taking a screenshot of the work, opening it in Photoshop or Pixlr to draw the diagonals and reciprocals, and noting how the artist guides the eye around the composition and emphasizes certain areas. It includes examples of works by Pontormo and Picasso that utilize dynamic symmetry and directs students to the Google Arts & Culture website to find another example from the 1400s-1800s to analyze.

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1 - 5 - Recognizing Dynamic Symmetry

The document provides instructions for students to analyze a work of art for its use of dynamic symmetry, including taking a screenshot of the work, opening it in Photoshop or Pixlr to draw the diagonals and reciprocals, and noting how the artist guides the eye around the composition and emphasizes certain areas. It includes examples of works by Pontormo and Picasso that utilize dynamic symmetry and directs students to the Google Arts & Culture website to find another example from the 1400s-1800s to analyze.

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1_5 Recognizing Dynamic Symmetry: Q3 Wk2

Follow the steps in this PowerPoint to begin


recognizing how artists can use dynamic
symmetry to make their compositions powerful.

Make your digital drawing file that shows how


they used D.S., answer the questions about the
process then insert your drawing into the
My_Name-PdX_5 Recognizing Dynamic
Symmetry PowerPoint file. That file is what you
should upload to Schoology, NOT this one!
Dynamic Symmetry= more Instagram likes!

This is a way to compose


your images to guide your
viewers eyes around your
work and accent certain
areas that are important.

It also balances your


composition and makes it
pleasing to look at!

Jacopo Pontormo- The Deposition from the Cross, 1525–1528

Pablo Picasso – The Old Guitarist


Recognizing Dynamic Symmetry:
1. Go to https://artsandculture.google.com/ and browse for a
painting, drawing or photograph you think the artist has
used Dynamic Symmetry in an amazing way!

*European paintings the mid-1400’s to early 1800’s will most


likely have used dynamic symmetry in some way.

2. Take a screenshot of the work of art (you won’t


be able to right-click to copy), save and name the
file like this: artist, title, date and medium then
save it to your s123456 folder temporarily (be sure
to back it up in your OneDrive folder).
Example: Matthias Stomer_Annunciation_1633_Painting
3. Open the file in Photoshop (at school) or go to
www.pixlr.com/e/ (at school or home):

4. Create a new layer to draw over:

Photoshop

Pixlr.com
5. Click on the brush icon in the left toolbar (either
program) and select a 3 to 5 pixel size brush, make sure to
use a contrasting (different) color that will show up against
the image! Click the new layer for the next step..

Pixlr.com

Photoshop
6. In either program, click on the bottom left
corner once, press and hold shift, click once in
upper left corner to make your Baroque diagonal.

Pixlr.com

Photoshop
7. In either program, click on the bottom right
corner once, press and hold shift, click once in
upper left corner to make your Sinister diagonal.
8.Now draw the reciprocals- depending upon
whether you are in class or distance learner use a
piece of paper that has a square edge and line up the
A B and C points.

Match the base of one of the paper edges and move it left and right
until it meets the corner, then click on the point on the diagonal where
it falls (see illustration).
Reciprocals intersect the diagonals at Ninety degrees-
remember that each corner has a reciprocal.

Packet o’ seeds method

Ye Olde Ziploc bag technique


9. Once reciprocals have been found, use several
different color lines to show how the artist
composed the artwork to guide the viewer’s eyes
around and emphasize certain parts.
*Remember, sometimes an area that is NOT in
the lines might be important too!
Imagine the artist used the lines to circle
important areas, too!
10. Notice & draw
the different ways
the artist has
emphasized their
subjects.

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