Drawing

David's Collection

Vocabulary: Balance

Balance

Definition A state of equilibrium, equality in weight, value, or importance. As between 2 things or parts of a thing.
Artist Fredric Remington
Title Dismounted; The fourth trooper moving the led horses.
Date 1890 - American West
Medium Oil on canvas
Location Sterling and Francine Clark Institute
Source 30,000 Years of Art; Phaidon Publications; ISBN: 978-0-7148-4789-4; Page 910
Example
Comments This picture shows balance on several levels. There is simply galloping horse filling the entire horizon, then unmount horses on the left balance those on the right. The horses on the left are in terror and panic, while those on the right are in control. The sky balances with the desert.