Harbuck, Michael 

Module 02 – Journal – themes of art

The properties of a viewed object have been given a basic system by artists and observers according to the basic physics of perception.  Termed visual elements, these characteristicae involve the geometry and physical representations of visual perception.  From early scholars the basis of shapes and the formal definition of shapes has been used to clarify and taxonomize the objects in our physical world.  Not only the shape of objects holds an importance however.  The factual physical human perception of color is perhaps the most personal of all that we see.  Human brains rectify the input of different wavelenghts of electromagnetic enegery through numerous chemical and electrical processes and output an amazing kaleidascope of the reflection of the compostion of organic and inorganic substance.  Hence:  Our world in color according to humans physiology.  Color is both facinating and complicated.   Although unseen (by us)  light is a line of a moving quanta.  Perhaps the line as a concept is underlying to unconscious knowledge of immutable line of light energy.  Texture implies a third dimention, important in the relalistic portrayal within a two dimentinal work.  Pattern is interesting because of the mimicry of the natural world around us.  Repetion of sequence.  The basis of LIFE is repetition of sequence.  A programmed sequence of a chain chemical molocules:  Replication.  Might one not say that humans are an evolving pattern?   In art the absence of mass or an object may often times be as important as an object for itself.  
Art then may be defined as human attempt to summarize and recreate physical forms from the properties we percieve.  

Design thus, may be defined as HOW humans beings recreate and attempt this existential task.  
Methods that we have used within our history have become a set of tools to contemplate the how of the representations we want to obtain.  If intended or wholely consequential, some or all principles are present in everything in this physical world.    

The field of view's relational order is defined with balance within the limits of the perspective, the visual weight of single elements within a view of limited domian and range, perceptual depth, and symmetry 

Oldenbugs and van Bruggen's Plantior is the piece in this section I found to be most intersting.  Of course the paintings are very beautiful.  I simply enjoyed the scale and fun of the work.  The thought of giants using this impliment made me laugh.  Similar to using a large wooden spoon used as a wall decoration to bake a cake.  ( I recently saw this done ).