Design Basics Scale resource material: Design Basics by David A. Lauer and Stephen Pentak (pages 56 through 69) Launching the Imagination:Two Dimensional Design by Mary Stewart (3-13 through 3-14) Scale refers to size - is essentially another word for size. Scale needs a standard of reference to be meaningful. What is big? Big in relation to what? Proportion refers to relative size, size measured against other elements or against some mental norm or standard. In thinking about artistic scale consider the scale of the work itself. Look at the following examples of scale contrasts - small to giant. The Japanese netsuke is just under 2 inches and the painting by Kent Twitchell of Ed Ruscha is 70-foot-high. Examples of Scale Claes Oldenburg http://net.unl.edu/~swi/arts/ntbk.html http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/oldenburg/olden.html http://www.sculpturecenter.org/oosi/sculpture.asp?SID=843 http://www.ago.net/info/collection/work.cfm?work_id=25 http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/whatsart/oldenb5.html http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Musee.nsf/Docs/04A73CE0B7DFA3B4C1256A7F00520EF2?OpenDocument&sessionM=3.2.2&L=1 Rene Magritte http://www.atara.net/magritte/20s/false-mirror.html http://www.atara.net/magritte/50s/index.html