Emphasis Assignment

I found all of these examples online in google search of images. The focal points are circled in red.

The use of emphasis for a focal point


 




One element as the focal point example: The single lime green element in this composition directs the eye to the head of the lego object.


Edvard Munch's "The Scream" 
LEGO'd by Joel Grannas









No focal point example: The repetition of similar human faces wearing the same color clothing and hair leaves this artwork with no focal point.

Repetiiton from the website www.stealthstuff.com



 


Isolation as the focal point example: The larger blue figure set apart from the rest of the blue figures, drawing the eye to that area of the artwork first.

Cover art for the CD The Outsider by Donna Williams.




 

Placement as the focal point example: The central figures co-create a focal point as the eye travels from the woman dressed in black and white around to the black and white dog and to the children, first the one on the black and white dog, then to the other child. The flow is aided by the placement of arms and eye gazes of the subjects.

by Renoir


 


Contrast as the focal point example: The focal point here is the girl, a soft, warm (animal) subject against the course and cold (mineral) objects of furniture and architecture.

By Bryan Larsen