The art of landscape painting in oil colour (1907)
East, Alfred, Sir, 1844-1913, author · London : Cassell and Company, Limited · leaf 83
be nothing left to speak of its excellence ; if there is no beauty of design, then the value of the picture as a work of art will be lost. Composition is one of the greatest qualities in art, it makes all the difference between a fine work and a mean one. I will attempt by means of a few illus-… … with the correction of line, and FIG. D. the addition of clouds, you have a balance which we call composition. Examples might be re- peated constantly. One may suffice (see Big. E), which is the reverse of the example above ; in this the objects are not at each side, but in the centre of the…
Landscape painting
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