(5) Spreading arrangement

Contrary to the arrangement mentioned above, in this KOHSEI (Basic Art & Design) things spread from the center to the periphery. To bring about such an operation of eye-sight, it is necessary to make some device in the arrangement, in which at first your eyes catch the center and then gradually focus on the periphery.

In Figure 134 the area of figures, which is large at the center, shrunk step by step as approaching the periphery. It is like looking at a globe at a distance, on which the latitude and longitude intervals become narrow as approaching its circumference.

Figure 135 is a kind of zoom effect. Only the front letters are conspicuous, and the piled letters behind are like a shadow leaving a trail. It seems that the particles of light from the back get the letters to go forward and make them projected in a picture tube.

·In Figure 136 you will focus your eyes on the dazzling-colored center first, and then move to the periphery by degrees. The shape has the orientation to left and right like an arrow, helping the above effect.

Figure 137 is based of the same principle as Figure 134. That is, this is one of the spreading KOHSEI (Basic Art & Design) in which at first you fix your eyes on the shape with a large area at the center, and head for shapes lesser in size with weaker color in the periphery (The center part, on which the shapes are big and have brightness in color, first catches your eyes. Second, the focus of your eyes moves to the corners in which there are pale-colored shapes of less size).
 
 


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Figure 134: An arrangement with a feeling of a spreading out from the center to the periphery.
Figure 135: An arrangement with a feeling of going forward from the center of the inner part,
                         and with a spreading feeling, Yuzo Baba.
Figure 136: One's eyes, first on the impressive poles in the center, move to both sides of the picture.


 

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