Blog assignment 5 "Scale and Proportion"

Snow on Mount Fuji, porters climb uphill by Hokusai in 1836. Scale refers to the size of an object in relationship to another object. In art the size relationship between an object and the human body is significant. In experiencing the scale of an artwork we tend to compare its size to the size of our own bodies.Proportion refers to the relative size of parts of a whole. We often think of proportions in terms of size relationships within the human body. the mountain is what you can get the scale of the people and the ships in the water.