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Composition

10/13/2017

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This is a vast subject.  It is about the arrangement of objects or elements in any work of art or craft.  Even we, as individuals are living works of art and need to be composed.  Music, poetry, language, all the visual arts,  require composition in order for the viewer, listener, wearer, partaker to be informed of the intention of the practitioner.

There are principles of composition.  There is an established, visual ordering and formal structure, and Western composition is very different from Eastern.

In the visual arts, we need to consider Line, Shape, Colour, Texture, Tone, Space, Layout, Lighting, Perspective, Balance, Movement, Emphasis, Rhythm, and whether the WHOLE is interesting and expressive of intention.  There are ways of making something a bit boring into something of interest and worth looking at or giving time to let the artist's work speak.

Awareness takes time to develop but it is well worth honing an evaluating eye on this great subject.
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    PAM HARMER

    This blog is my thoughts on and around art.  It will change and I hope be a forum for your own  philosophical thought

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