Proportion

Proportion

The relationship between different elements within a composition, based on their size.

Proportion is important when striving for realism in drawing or painting, as incorrect proportions can lead to a less lifelike appearance.

Moreover, artists can use proportion intentionally to convey various effects. By manipulating proportions, artists can evoke feelings of strength, weakness, humour, mystery, and more. Proportions can be exaggerated to highlight specific elements or meanings within a scene. For instance, caricature artists distort proportions to create stylised and expressive depictions of their subjects.

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The Guerrilla Girls: Four Decades of Disruption

From the streets to the Supreme Court, the punk feminist art collective are still fighting for social justice in the art world and beyond.

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JR: Miniature Giants

Installations by JR are some of the most viewed artworks in the world. Ahead of our first collaboration, we visited the legendary photographer in Paris to talk about scale, scaffolding, the ever-growing ambition of his public projects and why he wants to stay naïve forever.

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Sensory Inspiration

The origin story for a new collaboration with New York legend José Parlá got us thinking about some of the unexpected places where artists find their art.

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Kpe Innocent

Kpe Innocent (he/him) was born in Accra, Ghana in 1994. He continues to live and work in the city.

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Larry Bell

Larry Bell (he/him) was born in 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. He is based in Taos, New Mexico where he currently works. He also has a studio on Venice Beach, California.

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Clayton Schiff

Clayton Schiff (he/him) was born in 1987 in New York, United States, where he continues to live and work.

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Aubrey Levinthal

Aubrey Levinthal was born in 1986 in Philadelphia, USA, where she continues to live and work.

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Khari Turner

Khari Turner (he/him) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1991, and now lives and works in New York.

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Big Steps

In Big Steps, KPE Innocent contemplates the chasm between decision and action: faith. The foot of a strangely-proportioned figure is raised high behind them – frozen mid stride. A single line defines what lies behind, but not what lies ahead.Studio Works is a series of original artworks by emerging artists from across the globe.

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Parra's studio, with Parra at the centre, his back to the camera as he works on the large painting takes centre stage, showing a faceless blue woman in a striped dress, painted in red, purple, blue and teal. The studio is full of brightly coloured paints, with a large window on the right and a patterned rug across the floor under the painting.