/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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Can all be simplified to rhythm, contrast and detail.
Straight lines, homogeneous textures and lack of transition are all unnerving and distressing. Humans evolved in a natural environment. The average naked rocky surface (which already contains far better features than a naked concrete wall) is generally a danger. Humans are designed to find gradual transitions, uneven textures and emergent rhythms comfortable. A field, a tree canopy, even distant mountains smoothed by scattering effects.
The only counterpoint to this is large structures giving a sense of "safety" if composed by distinct rigid shapes, but it's an additional element to the above, it doesn't work well independently(brutalism).