Bob Crowley was born in Cork, Ireland in 1952. He is an Academy Award winning scenic designer, and has designed over 20 productions over his career. He uses a variety of colors and shapes, and movement in his pieces. He uses variety by experimenting with colors and messing around with shapes. For example, in the play The Glass Menagerie, he made a staircase that seems like it was leaning and going away from the audience. Crowley uses movement in most of pieces. For example, in his play American in Paris, he uses projections of airplanes to give the illusion that they are flying over head.
A diptych is a painting or artwork that is two flat pieces hinged or attached together. Below is a diptych that has a blend of the principles of art: balance, harmony, and gradation. The balance comes from the use of the same colors, brush strokes, and intense disproportion of the characters. The harmony is that they are clearly from the same universe and they compliment each other. The painting plays around with gradation: small eyes to large ones, warped head shapes, light colors on the face compared to the dark background. Triptychs are the same as diptychs, but instead of two pieces of artwork, it's three. Below is a triptych that follows the same principles of art. The fact that the three pieces are connected by universe and interact with each other means that the artist is using harmony. The painting has balance because of the way the artist set up the two adults to be beside each other. It also has gradation because of the use of dark and light colors surrounding the peo
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