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Job: 11803 Title: #218076# Drawing Lessons From The Famous Artists School (Rockport)
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MAKING COMPOSITIONAL CHOICES
To begin with, let’s define composition in artistic terms: Composition
means the orderly arrangement and distribution of forms, shapes,
colors, and space. It is the use of artistic judgment in assembling the
various elements of a picture to produce an eective whole. In other
words, composition is the basic underpinning of an artist’s work. Not
surprisingly, each of the Famous Artists School founders had his own
interpretation of what that basic tenet ...