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Launchpad: Symmetry and Balance (Teacher)

Shaping the View: Symmetry and Balance

 

1. Mirror, Mirror: Symmetry in Painting

Bergognone’s The Assumption of the Virgin

Thomas Hart Benton’s Trail Riders

  • Benton Line Drawing

Hendrick Avercamp’s Scene with a Tower to the Left

  • Avercamp Line Drawing

2. Balancing Acts

Cima de Conegliano’s Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist

  • Conegliano Line Drawing
  • Conegliano Diagram 1 (triangle)

Hendrick Avercamp’s Scene with a Tower to the Left

  • Avercamp Line Drawing
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