December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Consistency of language throughout a work of art is nearly always necessary if it is to be coherent.
• For example, it is hard to make a representational painting read well if half of it is in black and white and the other half in color. Tonal and color structure must be consistent to sustain an illusion.
• The same principle applies to handling. It is nearly impossible, for example, to develop a unified painting in which part of the picture is executed in heavy brushstrokes and the rest of it is painted in very small and delicate brushstrokes.
• The idea that we generally require some form of unity to be present throughout a work of art goes back to Aristotle’s Poetics. More recently, the writer W. Somerset ...