Creative Challenge

EMPHASIS

force or intensity of expression that gives impressiveness or importance

March 19, 2012

Assignment: Create Emphasis
Creations will be shared and discussed at MVCA Meeting on April 23, 2012 at 7 pm.

Discussion: Define Emphasis
o Emphasis is a principle of art which occurs any time an element of a piece is given dominance by the artist. In other words, the artist makes part of the work stand out.
o particular prominence given in reading or speaking to one or more words or syllables, or in written works, to lay out a sentence in such a way that when read it gives prominence to one or more words or syllables
o special consideration of or stress or insistence on something

Synonyms: accent, accentuation, stress, underscoring, weight

Visual (including crafts):
Contrast a shape with its surroundings using dark/light values, texture, temperature of hues, or color
Focus attention with converging lines
Isolate the object you want to emphasize


Music:
Crescendo
Rhythm – building or emphasis on a particular beat (waltz)
Isolate the sound you wish to emphasize
A surprise, unexpected moment, startles

Literature/poetry:
Climax, building the reader to an intentionally emphasized one or more words or syllables (in poems) or paragraphs (in stories)
Contrast in tone, theme and/or alliteration
Suspense, irony and/or “punch-line”

Dance/movement:
Isolate the movement you wish to emphasize
A movement or a part of the choreography that is exaggerated more than the other parts, whether you hold that pose longer or you make it bigger
A surprise, unexpected moment, startles


Acting:
Pointed exaggeration of facial expression, gesture, verbal communication
Climax, building the audience to an intentionally emphasized moment
A surprise, unexpected moment, startles