Composition (visual arts)
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In visual arts, composition is the organization of an artwork. It is often used interchangeably with various terms such as design, form, visual ordering, or formal structure, depending on the context.
The Art of Painting by Jan Vermeer
Patterns in the frosted glass form leading lines which help draw in the viewer's eye in this photograph of a ledge in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Rule of thirds: Note how the horizon falls close to the bottom grid line, and how the dark areas are in the left third, the overexposed in the right third.
Image of a racing car with lead room
Drawing
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Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to create a drawing include p
Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1485, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Madame Palmyre with Her Dog, 1897
Galileo Galilei, Phases of the Moon, 1609 or 1610, brown ink and wash on paper, 208 × 142 mm., National Central Library (Florence), Gal. 48, fol. 28r
Antoine Watteau, trois crayons technique