ART 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Affordance, Ancient Greek Art
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Affordance objects and enviroments have a direct relationship. The physical characteristics of an object are based on its function, which is based on environment. Lazy boy is designed for comfort and relaxation. While a desk chair would be used for doing work or school. Both chairs perfectly fit the environment, but if the environments were switched they would be less efficient. Affordance is putting the object in the paper environment. Alignment the arrangement of lines, columns, and other organizational aspects connects at a shared center. Columns can be more powerful than when the text is centered. Lines and paragraph structure help guide the view through the text. Text can also be aligned to the center-line, which can also be. Although alignment is most often used down the center or off to one side, there are more complex alignments. and down. Anthropomorphic form when the viewer attributes human features to a form.
