Principles of Composition

Variety

Henri Matisse, Memory of Oceania, 1953Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, and charcoalon white paper, Museum of Modern Art, NY

Unity

Jackson Pollock, Shimmering Substances (Sounds in the Grass

Series), Oil on Canvas, 1946

Museum of Modern Art, NY

VARIETY

Joseph Cornell, The Hotel Eden, 1945, Assemblage with music box, National Gallery Of Canada, Ottawa

Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1909-10, Oil on Canvas, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

RADIAL BALANCE

A B S A Y L M A M N E C T E R I C A L

Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, Before 1911, finished 1915, Oil on Canvas, Museum Leopold, Vienna, Austria

Asymmetrical Balance

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew, 1748-1749, Oil on Canvas, National Gallery, London

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939, Oil on Canvas, Museo Nacionale de Arte Moderno, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City

BALANCE

SYMMETRICAL

Scale & Proportion

Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Pursuit, from The Progress of Love, 1771-73, 1790-91, Oil on Canvas, Frick Collection, New York

Scale: the size of somethingIn relation to what we Assume to be normal

Claes Oldenburg, Stake Hitch, 1984, Stake: Aluminum, steel, resin painted with polyurethane enamel, Rope: polyurethanfoam, plastic materials,

painted with latex Dallas Museum of art

Great Buddha of Kamakura, Kotoku-in, Kamakura, Japan, 1252, Bronze, 43’

Rene Magritte, Delusions of Grandeur II, 1948, Oil on Canvas, Hirshorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Scale &

PRO

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Proportion-size of one part in relation to another withinan artwork or size of one part in relation to the whole

EMPHASIS!

Jasper Johns,Target with FourFaces, 1955,Encaustic and Collage on canvasWith plaster casts, MOMA, NY