This image is probably very familiar to most people. This is the Starry Night by famous painter Vincent Van Gogh, it was painted in 1889.
This composition is an excellent example of balance. One side does not feel heavier than the other because the visual weight is distributed evenly throughout the entire composition. The size of the stars and the swirls in the size balance out the city and even the size of the huge mountain. The juxtaposition of the colors also helps balance this piece. The dark, cool colors in the landscape tend to blend up into the blue sky, where the warm and bright yellows from the stars and moon tends to also work itself not only into the sky, but back down into the town and even up in the dark, almost black mountain.
This is composition is also an example of an asymmetrical balance. The mountain on the left side is not reflected on the other side of the composition, and the starts in the sky aren't exactly the same on both sides either. Not being symmetrical does not make a piece any less balanced, it just makes it different, and often more esthetically pleasing.
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