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choose this photo for worms eye view because you are getting a lower angle of the pumpkin. This photo can also be simplicity.
This shot is the starting pattern for a collection of similar composition images.
Look for other composition patterns in the "Composition Patterns Group "
Practicing composition for my photo class on a weekend roadtrip for a family wedding. Pennsylvania was beautiful. I wish I'd had more time to stop (and a polarizer!)
January 2012 - Compositional sketches for coursework based upon influences of architecture and structure.
I used composition in this photo by using the tree branches to help frame the photo and lead your eye to the nest and eggs. I took this photo by using a fake birds nest that was in our house and putting it in a tree in my backyard. something that I could improve in this photo would have been to find a less distracting background and to try to have used more elements and principals in this photo. The principals that I did use are light, texture and emphasis.
I try to put lighting and shapes in one picture.
then I merge night sky on the top of the window to make it look more nice.
I did everything my self in this picture.
Herring Gull, Northern Utah
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Title- "Composition".
Description- color image with three fin shapes on top and two on the bottom.
Completion date- . July, 1958. ('Compostiion' is not a unique title. The date can identify.)
Medium- polymer on paper, canvas mounted.
Dimensions- 18" x 18"; 45.7 x 45.7 CM..
City- Boston.
Yes, this is the same painting that is shown on page one, but it is tipped another way. There is an indicator on the back of the painting: a larger arrow and a smaller one, showing the primary and secondary way to show the piece. This is the secondary way.
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Note the reference to "polymer" in the medium listing under the photo.
We see the word, polymer, on bottles of acrylic media, nowadays. In 1958, there was no 'acrylic' yet. Painters, interested in the new medium bought artist's grade polymer in 5 gallon drums. We mixed color into it in the powder state. I continued to use oil, as well.
Polymer was invented by an artist, associated with the Museum School. At about the same time, a corporation invented it, but the artist got the patent in first.
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This one is here, in grey portfolio 5.
The Red School House - 1873
Winslow Homer
American, 1836 - 1910
Shown nearly full-length, a young schoolteacher fills the foreground of The Red Schoolhouse. Standing on a wide dirt path or road, she gazes off to her right with a solemn expression, holding two books in her left hand and the striped fabric of her flounced skirt in her right. Around her neck the teacher wears a lacy triangular shawl known as a fichu that appears to be fastened with a square gold brooch or button. Her black and white ruffled bonnet is similarly elegant. Though only roughly sketched, the building behind the central figure is recognizable as a small red schoolhouse toward which a trio of schoolgirls appear to be headed. The surrounding landscape, lush and green, is silhouetted against a wide expanse of sky that glows with the warm, bright colors of early morning.
The Red School House is related to a series of school subjects that Winslow Homer painted from 1871 to 1874. Though he varied the composition and narrative emphasis across the series, three elements remain consistent: a small red schoolhouse, its young female teacher, and a luminous mountain setting. Homer’s attention to this theme reflected a popular wave of nostalgia in late 19th-century America for small country schools and the simpler lifestyle they recalled. Part of a larger body of paintings of children completed in the 1870s, Homer’s school subjects, including The Red School House, simultaneously express the country’s sense of optimism for future generations in the wake of the Civil War.
More information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I, pages 305-309, which is available as a free PDF at www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs...
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
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Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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