Book1899
Composition
Arthur Wesley Dow
Treats picture-making as the deliberate arrangement of line, mass and colour rather than accurate representation, and built a teaching method on that claim.
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Visual Arts · Drawing & Painting
Composition
A topic within Drawing & Painting, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
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Book1920
Dynamic Symmetry: The Greek Vase
Jay Hambidge
Argues that Greek vase painters composed by a repeatable system of root-rectangle proportion rather than by eye, and that recovering this 'dynamic symmetry' gives a modern artist the same underlying tool.
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