Activity #4 REDO

Romare Bearden’s, Tomorrow I May Be Far Away is based on asymmetrical balance. The torn paper, and the use of color in the left window provides the asymmetry in this painting. Size and placement was used to emphasize the man sitting on the front steps of the house. The focal point is the magazine cut outs used on parts of the face and body of the man and the person standing in the window. Through repetition, visual elements can take on a rhythm within a work. In this painting the colors of the shapes on the house provide the rhythm. magazine picture cutouts, various papers, charcoal, and graphite provide variety in Bearden’s work of art. Romare Bearden's work captures, vivid colors and emotive imagery that characterizes the rhythmical beauty of this painting.

John Sloan’s painting The City from Greenwich Village was painted in 1922. The composition of this design is based on asymmetrical balance. The curve of the elevated tracks helps to lead our eyes to this destination. (Scribbles). The background of this picture is subordinate so that it does not interfere with the main emphasis of the picture; Sloan did this by blurring the city skyline. Sloan wanted to make a record of the older city that was giving way to the towers of modern New York. (Scribbles).