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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 &
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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