View a Preview ClipComposition Video (VHS/DVD). Everyone has the desire to arrange things in a way that is most pleasing to the eye. In painting, composition involves arranging every ingredient-shape, color, texture, and light-so that working together, they create artistic balance. In this program, artist Ray Richardson deliberately chooses a long, slim canvas to challenge his compositional abilities. As he confronts his quest to create a cinemascopic work, students begin to appreciate the composition techniques of painters such as Piero della Francesca, Tintoretto, Degas, and Matisse. (30 minutes.) Art and Design, Art and Photography. 1997
#7765 Composition is part of the series "Oil in Canvas". The copyright date is 1997. This program is geared to more college level audiences.
