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Painting of the Day #3 ' How To Look at Paintings’ --composition

Good artists plan a painting. They want to control how you look at the piece. When you’re looking at a work of art, you should be forced to look at the main focal point or points first; then different aspects of the composition should move your eye around to the less and less important aspects of the work. ,[object Object],[object Object]

John Singleton Copley (American) 1778 72x90.25 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston oil on canvas ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

I love this damn painting. John Singer Sargent is the MAN. This was a painting commission by some rich guy of his daughters. Some artists feel that you shouldn’t get to know your portrait subjects b/c it influences the work and gives it an editorial aspect. Now when you have a painting of 4 daughters you don’t want to put the emphasis on one more than the others. Sargent gets to know the girls and makes a really fantastic and strange composition. At first glance you look at the little girl on the floor, she’s in the foreground and pretty centralized. The edge of the carpet then leads your eye up to the girl on the left, standing there very oddly. Although the older girls are in the darkness. They are centralized and grab your attention next, the first one b/c she’s looking at you, the second b/c she’s oddly the only one that isn’t facing the viewer. She hated Sargent and was uncooperative the entire time. All of these elements distribute the attention to the girls pretty evenly and the space is closed off on the right side by the vase. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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