
What is pattern?

What is balance?
American, Cutout of Animals, second quarter 19th century

What is movement?
Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night 1888


What is unity?
Wassily Kandinsky — Color Study. Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913

What is alignment?
Planets in Alignment to the Sun by Nicolas Burningham 2020
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What is emphasis?
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish - 1922.

What is proportion?
Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948

What is movement?
George Eastman House Photography Collections, CC BY-SA 2.5
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What is emphasis?
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767
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What is emphasis?
Georges de La Tour, St. Joseph the Carpenter, c. 1645

What is alignment?
Alignment Painting by Rosemary Cotnoir

What is contrast?
Rumpelstiltskin - Hue Contrast by Slayer-of-Blood

What is balance?
Diego Rivera, Flower Day, 1925

What is movement?
Hokusai, Ejiri in Suruga Province, 1830

What is Unity?
René Magritte, Golconda, 1953

What is alignment?
Jonathan Borofsky, Walking to the Sky, 2004
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What is contrast?
Concentric Circles by Sonia Terk Delaunay
What is contrast?
Panic Room by Tilt 2020

What is unity?
Fernando Botero, The Musicians, 1991

What is balance?
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, 1871
What is imbalance?
Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, c. 1890

What is out of proportion?
María Izquierdo, The Indifferent Child, 1947

What is out of alignment?
Purple Cone Flowers by Carol Fox Henrick

What is out of proportion?
René Magritte, Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values), 1952

What is out of balance?
JOHN SINGER SARGENT - EL JALEO, 1882