Composition
Description
Everyone has the desire to arrange things in a way that is most pleasing to the eye. In painting, composition involves arranging every ingredient-shape, color, texture, and light-so that working together, they create artistic balance. In this program, artist Ray Richardson deliberately chooses a long, slim canvas to challenge his compositional abilities. As he confronts his quest to create a cinemascopic work, students begin to appreciate the composition techniques of painters such as Piero della Francesca, Tintoretto, Degas, and Matisse.
Runtime
30 min
Series
Subjects
- Art criticism (74)
- Drawing (49)
- Visual literacy (198)
- Visual communication (69)
- Painting (178)
- Visual perception (59)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c1997
Database
Films on Demand
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