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Understanding paintings : the elements of composition / Frederick Malins.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Phaidon, 1980.Description: 128 páginas : ilustraciones algunas a color ; 29 cmISBN: - 0139367322
- 750.18 M15u
Contents:
Point: point as position. -- grouping. -- point as pattern. -- point as focus. -- point as movement. -- point as texture. -- Line: line used to express feelings and emotions. -- line as a compositional element. -- the line analyzsed. -- line as structure. -- line as contour. -- line expressing transparency. -- line as movement. -- line as force. -- line as pattern. -- line as texture. --
Perspective: aspects of linear perspective in composition. -- the eye level or horizon line. -- one-point, two-point, three-point perspective. -- the rectagle in one-point perspective. -- the circle in perspective. -- early beginnings. -- development of one-point perspective. -- multiple viewpoint. -- forced perspective. -- perspective of the dream. -- ambiguous perspective. --
Geometry: geometry and the golden section. -- the golden section as the basis of geometric proportion. -- geometry as pattern. -- geometry as construction.-- the circle; geometry as movement. -- geometry as shape and form. -- geometry as subject. --Tone: tone as form. -- tonal composition and tone values. -- tone as lighting. -- tonal simplicfication. -- tone as distance (aerial perspective). -- tone as pattern; pattern by counter-change of tones. -- tone as rhythum; tonality-the tonal concept. -- Colour: hue.-- value. -- chroma.-- colour as mood.-- colour as symbol.-- colour as space (aerial perspective).-- colour as light and movement.-- colour as form. -- Drawing: the point, and the point as movement. -- line as contour. -- line as movement. -- line as perspective and implied perspective. -- line as geometry. -- line as form by cross-section. -- line as form by direction of oplane. -- line and tone.-- tone as form by lighting and by plane. -- tone as space and as value. -- tonal analysis. -- Composition: analysis of composition.
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