Composition
The portrait has the sense of depth; when it is seen from a perspective. It does not seem to be a “window of infinity”, we can notice that from the shadow of the damsel captured by the artist. One can say it has a “shallow” picture space but it is not totally flat, it has the sense of realism. The focal point of the picture, which the most important part of the painting, is the hand which has the bright reddish glow, given out by the candle covered by the hand. This happens to be the central focus line in the painting. There are no geometric shapes, no patterns are seen in the painting but there is a sense of balance, the objects are arranged symmetrically. The shape of the picture is vertically elongated.
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Famous quotes containing the word composition:
“Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.”
—Oscar Cullman. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament, ch. 1, Epworth Press (1958)
“Vices enter into the composition of virtues as poisons into the composition of certain medicines. Prudence and common sense mix them together, and make excellent use of them against the misfortunes that attend human life.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle and in ending except that each generation has something different at which they are all looking. By this I mean so simply that anybody knows it that composition is the difference which makes each and all of them then different from other generations and this is what makes everything different otherwise they are all alike and everybody knows it because everybody says it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)