Discusses basic elements of composition, such as lines, planes, arrangements of objects, color, and shading. Provides examples from famous art works, including works of Orazio Gentileschi, Marcoussis, Picasso, Cézanne, Andrea di Bartolo, Masolino, Domenico Veneziano, Raphael, Pontormo, El Greco, Tintoretto, Rubens, Rembrandt, Poussin, De Hooch, Pater, Boucher, VanHamen y Leon, Ruisdael, Gainsborough, William Gilpin, Boilly, Turner, Manet, Degas, Gauguin, Matisse, Derain, and Braque. Also analyzes the pictorial composition in the anonymous painting, Enthroned Madonna and child.
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