COMPOSITIONExercise: planning the figure in the context of the Life Drawing room
Objective: moving from drawing toward picture-making and a fuller pictorial statement.
Composition is an arrangement of elements.
The artist's goal is to create a mood or express a feeling about the model.
The Life Studio is an artificial environment that needs simplification or rearrangement for better communication and rendering space and subject emphasis.
These pages show how the elements in the room were arranged or
simplified for enhanced pictorial expression.
To study Composition we need a NORM, which is the traditional 'Classical Composition'.
All types of Compositions have the arrangement of forms and the ordering of the picture area.
'Classical Composition' relies on Harmony and Balance as organizing principles.
Harmony and Balance means a still, self-sufficient image within clear boundaries.
Modern innovators rebelled against 'Classical Composition' and valued Movement and Emotion as organizing principles.
Pick one system and use it for composing your drawings.
Pick the other system and use that for composing your drawings.
Study the compositions of Master Artists and determine their organizing principles and how they make variations in these principles.
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