Symmetrical Balance: Symmetrical balance is seen in perfectly centered compositions or those with mirror images.

Judy Chicago - "Dinner Party".

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Michelangelo Pistoletto - "Divizione e multiplicazione"

Eva hessE - "ACCESSION 11"

Magdalena Abakanowicz’s - "Abakan Red"

Clase Oldenburg- "Profiterole"

Asymmetrical Balance: I

s the kind of balance (one of the principles of art) in which the parts of a design are organized so that one side differs from the other without destroying that composition's overall harmony.

Magdalena Abakanowicz -Energy and Process

Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg.

Claes Oldenburg.

Louise Bourgeois - “End of Softness”

Radial Symmetry: a symmetrical arrangement of constituents, especially of radiating parts, about a central point.

Claes Oldenburg - " Shuttlecocks"

Louise Bourgeois - "Maman"

Claire Barclay.

'The More the Better' Nam June Paik

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'Balloon Flower (Magenta)' Jeff Koons.

Proportion:refers to the comparative, proper, or harmonious relationship of one part to another or to the whole with respect to size, quantity, or degree; a ratio.

Richard Serra.

Magdalena Abakanowicz - "Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro"

Claes Oldenburg - "Saw, Sawing"

Brancusi - " Endless Column"

Leaning Fork with Meatball and Spaghetti III' Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

Rhythm: Simulates the look and feel of movement in an overall composition.

Clases Oldenburg - "Flying Pins".

Louise Bourgeois - "The Couple".

'Dawn Shadows' Louise Nevelson.

Michelangelo Pistoletto - "The Labyrinth".

Eva Hesse - "Centre Pompidou".

Repetition: Something made by or resulting from repeating something, sometimes causing the form of a pattern.

Louise Nevelson - "Luminous Zag"

'Five Dancing' Magdalena Abakanowicz.

Louise Bourgeois - "Blind Man's Buff".

'Repetition Nineteen III' Eva Hesse.

Magdelena Abakanowicz - "80 Backs".

Emphasis: Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork; something singled out, stressed, or drawn attention to by means of contrast, anomaly, or counterpoint for aesthetic impact. A way of combining elementsto stress the differences between those elements and to create one or more centers of interest in a work.

'Broken Mirror' Michelangelo Pistoletto.

Brancusi - "Beginning of the World".

Brancusi -"Bird in Space"

'The Table of Silence' Brancusi.

Michelangelo Pistoletto - "La Venus dels drapes ".

Variety: A principle of design that refers to a way of combining elements of art in involved ways to achieve intricate and complex relationships. Variety is often obtained through the use of diversity and change by artists who wish to increase the visual interest of their work.

Louise Nevelson - "Untitled".

Brancusi - "Socrates".

'Number 75' Leonardo Drew.

Eva Hesse - "het atelier van".

'Number 80' Leonardo Drew.

Contrast: A large difference between two things; for example, hot and cold, green and red, light and shadow. Closely related to emphasis, a principle of design, this term refers to a way of juxtaposing elements of art to stress the differences between them.