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What kind of elements can I use in abstract art to create a sense of calm or awe?
I'm more of a writer, but I'm working on a project in art art class and I need some ideas. I'm trying to create a nonrepresentational piece that expresses, at a very basic level, a sense of calm or ease. What kind of artistic elements, like lines or shapes, can I use to help express this? Thanks.
Calm is completely different than awe, is it not?
Break them into parts.
Stability ~ calm. Frank Lloyd Wright used horizontals because they're inherently more stable that verticals, so his work created a calm, stable feeling.
Contrast ~ conflict. Therefore, harmonious color schemes - colors that are adjacent to others on the color wheel - are more calm than contrasty ones.
Conflict catches one's attention. You could say that complementary colors - those opposite in the color wheel - make a bold (awesome) statement. They're certainly not peaceful together (contrasting personalities could be applied to writing too, could they not?)
Snow is a good calming thing. It dampens sound, so makes everything calm. Plus, people aren't moving too fast in the snow if at all, so they have to sit there and be calm/chill.
A beach is pretty calm. Watch out for big waves though.
Winter nights are calm - everyone's inside.
Convergence is calm, divergence is explosive.
There's also a lot of compositional tricks that can create perceptions.
Maybe all this will help...
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