Unity in Art

Principles of Art

Unity

Unity: Unity is the feeling of harmony between all parts of the artwork creating a sense of completeness. Unity is the quality of wholeness or oneness that is achieved through the effective use of the elements and principles of design. A totality that combines all of its parts into one complete, coheisive whole.

Where is the unity?

Galatea of the Spheres, 1952 by Salvador Dalí

Landscape at Pont Aven, 1888by Paul Gauguin

What unifies this picture?

Where is the Unity here?

Flower for Tacoma Dome, c.1982 (Blue and White) by Andy Warhol

Where is the unity?

Farbstudie Quadrate, c.1913by Wassily Kandinsky

Drawing Hands by M. C. Escher

Zero-Nine by Jasper Johns

What two things unify this painting?

Spring, from a Series Depicting the Four Seasons, 1573 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

It’s just a

portrait right?

So what

unifies it?

The Dance of Youth by Pablo Picasso

Zinc Doors by Franz Kline

Hmmm….Is there unity here?

The Ambassadors, 1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger

Is this unified or does something stick out like a sore

thumb?