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Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design
Paperback
Series: Dover Art Instruction
Publisher Price: $10.95
ISBN13: 9780486268569
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Sep 19 1991
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.24 Width: 8.38 Depth: 8.47
Language: English
As a guiding principle of Eastern art and design, Notan (a Japanese word meaning dark-light) focuses on the interaction between positive and negative space, a relationship embodied in the ancient symbolism of the Yang and the Yin. In composition, it recognizes the separate but equally important identity of both a shape and its background.
Clearly and concisely, the authors demonstrate Notan's practical applications in six problems of progressive difficulty -- creative exercises that will fascinate artists and designers of every calling and level of expertise. Along with these exercises, the book includes many illustrations of the principle of Notan, among them images as diverse as a sculpture by David Smith, a Samoan tapa cloth, a Museum of Modern Art shopping bag, New England gravestone rubbings, Japanese wrapping paper, a painting by Robert Motherwell, a psychedelic poster, and a carved and dyed Nigerian calabash. Painters, sculptors, potters, jewelry, and textile designers, architects, and interior designers all will discover -- or rediscover -- in these pages an ancient principle of composition that can help them meet creative challenges with fresh new perspective.
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