Far Out: The Most Psychedelic Images in Science. 19 Factors That Impact Compositional Balance. Imagine a boulder leaning too far over the cliff’s edge.
Seeing that boulder you think it should come crashing down the mountainside. It’s out of balance and you feel the tension of the impending crash. A similar feeling happens in your visitors when the composition of your design is visually out of balance. In a couple of previous posts I talked about visual balance and in each I briefly mentioned the idea of visual weight in order to achieve visual balance.
BEAUTY AND TERROR: ESSAYS ON THE POWER OF PAINTING.
Stanley Spencer, English artist, by Kenneth Pople. Unravelling the Art of Stanley Spencer Analytic attention to process is the British genius.
Hugh Kenner, A Sinking Island. Stanley's creative impulse For most artists the creative impulse remains indefinable and the mental processes by which it becomes a picture mysterious. In the evolution of a painting the whirl of ideas surfacing from an artist's subconscious becomes integrated into an entity (defined here as a percept, concept, idea or emotion to which the thinker mentally imparts form) which is almost inexpressible in words, so much so that some artists - Bonnard or Klimt, for example - refused to divulge the inner life which prompted their art.