Pictorial composition and the critical judgment of pictures; a handbook for students and lovers of art (1903)
Poore, Henry Rankin, 1859-1940 · New York, The Baker & Taylor co · leaf 59
aresquatted on the left in the foreground is a daringbit of balance, finding its justification in the Page 105, 2 Page 147. [47] PICTORIAL COMPOSITION movement of interest toward the right in thebackground. In all forms, save the classic decoration itshould be the artists effort to conceal the… … centre, and that in all types of composition whereformality is not desired the centre is to beavoided. Any points equi-distant from any twosides are also weak points. The inequalities indistance should bear a mathematical ratio to eachother as one and two-thirds, two and three-fifths.These points…
Composition (Art) · Art criticism
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