Many men, I am aware, have endeavored to prove that there are eight or ten
different forms of composition. My own experience and investigation are, of
course, limited, but so far I have only been able to discover one, namely, the
larger mass and the smaller mass: the larger mass dominating the centre of
interest, which catches your eye instantly at first sight of a picture, and the
smaller or less interesting object which next attracts your eye, and so relieves
the vision and spares you the monotony of looking at a single object long and
steadily, thus fatiguing the eye and dissipating the interest. decorative paintings
Having determined upon the quality of the subject-matter and fixed its
centre interest in
pleasing relation to the whole, the next step is to confine yourself to all that
the eyes see at one glance and no more, or, in other words, that portion
of the landscape which you could cut out with the scissors of your eye and paste
upon your mind. That which you can see when your head is kept perfectly still,
your eye looking straight before you,oil paintings for sale, only seeing so high, so low, and so far to
the right and left, without a strain. The great sweep of vision, a sweep
covering a hundred subjects perhaps, is obtained by turning the eyes up or down
or sideways. But to be true—that is, to see one picture at a time—the eye should
be fixed like the lens of a camera, the limit of the picture being the range of
the eye and no more. A departure from this rule not only confuses your
perspective but crowds a number of points of interest into the square of your
canvas, when there is really only one centre point before you in nature;
and this one point you must treat as does the electrician in a theatre who
keeps the lime-light on the star of the play. oil painting reproductions
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