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)
“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)