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Composition is the arrangement of shapes to keep the eye moving with pleasure. Glenn Hirsch

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Composition is thearrangement of shapesto keep the eye moving

with pleasure.

Glenn Hirsch

Positive and Negative Shape creates rhythm

Repetition creates rhythm

Scale creates impact

Diagonals keep the eye moving all over the picture

The exchange of value creates relationships

Positive and Negative Shapes create rhythm

(M.C. Escher 1930)

Franz Kline, 1953

Jackson Pollock, 1944

Phillip Guston 1954

Henri Matisse

Helen Frankenthaler

Arshile Gorky

Gustav Courbet, 1855

Graham Sutherland 1944

Vladimir Volegov

Robert Bechtel, watercolor

DIAGONALS keep the eye moving

Gericault

Raphael (left), Rubens (right)

Anders Zorn, watercolor

Anders Zorn, watercolor

Stephen Scott Young, watercolor

Stephen Scott Young, watercolor

Edward Hopper, pastel

Andrew Wyeth

Vincent Perez

Vladimir Volegov

Ilya Repin

SCALE unites smaller shapes into large shapes by unifying the

color

Serov

Francis Picabia 1913

Vladimir Volegov

Serov

Elmer Bischoff

translation of value

dark on top of light

light on top of dark

A ‘translation of value’ white against dark, and dark against light

Georges Seurat, c. 1885

Georges Seurat

Translation of value - light against dark, and dark against light.

(Mo Seder)

Vladimir Volegov

Pattern creates rhythm through repetition

Tomb of Nakht 1500 BCE

Gustave Klimt, 1905

Deborah Oropallo, Tree, Violin, and Violinist, 1989Evenly space, repeated rhythms

Deborah Oropallo, Sioux Sox, 1989Staggered, uneven rhythms

For comparison: Leonardo didn’t

favor pattern

Botticelli’s art is all about the pattern

Primevera, 1482

Detail from The Trials of Moses, Sistine Chapel

Édouard Vuillard(French, 1868-1940)

Vuillard lived with his mother, a dressmaker, until the age of sixty, and was very familiar with pattern.

Much of his art is decorative with intricate patterns marked by a gentle humor and executed in a delicate, soft color.

Fred Tomaselli(American, 1956 - )

Tomaselli is best known for his highly detailed paintings

on wood panel, combining an array of unorthodox

materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy

resin and a maelstrom of pattern.