Unity, Harmony and variety:

Unity:

• Order, wholeness.

Harmony:

• The employment of the elements of art to create a sense of unity.

Variety:

• Diversity, this doesn’t always undermine the unity of a work but it can be designed to.

Compositional unity:

• the visual aspects of a work are organised.

• They are: simplicity, repetition and proximity.

Conceptual unity:

• The sense that there is an idea behind an artwork.

Gestalt unity:

• The whole is more than some of its parts.

• Conceptual and compositional unity work together to create it.

Variety:

• Can be opposed to unity and harmony, designed to disturb but if it succeeds the work may have conceptual unity.

• Can be about visual interest e.g. small changes within a larger pattern creating a point of interest.