What is composition? Concepts of Fine Art

1. What is composition?

The word "composition" is a translation of the English "COMPOSITION", a term of art for the plastic arts, which means: the composition of the various parts, combined, configured and organized to produce a more artistic picture. The so-called composition, that is, the artist uses the visual elements in the picture according to the space to organize them in the composition, is in the form of aesthetic appeal to the visual point, line, form, light, light and dark, color coordination. Illustration: Before taking a picture, hypothetically divide your image horizontally and vertically into three parts. The intersections of these imaginary dividing lines provide four choices for placing interesting centerpieces for good composition. The choices depend on the subject and where you want to place the subject in that position. We chose to place the subject at the upper right intersection so that we can see the entire shadow of the gull and point to most of the gull's tracks.

Composition is an important factor in the expression of the content of the work, is the work of all the organization of the visual art language of photography, which makes the content of the composition of a certain internal structure to get the appropriate expression, only the internal structure and external structure to get the harmony and unity, in order to produce a perfect composition.

2, the purpose of the composition

The purpose of the composition is: the idea of the typical person or scene to emphasize, highlight, so as to abandon those general, superficial, cumbersome, secondary things, and appropriate arrangement of the accompanying body, the choice of environment, so that the work is higher than the real life, more intense, more perfect, more concentrated, more typical, more ideal, in order to enhance the artistic effect. In general, it is the art of conveying one's thoughts and feelings to others, and this statement may truly express the purpose of composition. Illustration: In these two pictures we are indeed close enough to the subject, but the cluttered background in the left picture disguises the seagull. Change your perspective just a little, and soon the seagulls visually stand out against the blue sky.

3, the nature of the composition

Composition and design can be universal, because they mean the same thing. The precise concept of design and its original meaning is composition, that is, the kind of conception in which the artist arranges the various visual elements appropriately in order to express his or her ideas clearly.

Composition means not only concrete manipulation, but also the portrayal of the whole form as an object in relation to the complex rules of photography, introducing the natural object into a realm of reality as an independently existing world distinct from nature. Any good photographic work is a complex unity of thought and art. The complexity of the work is determined by the complexity of life. However, what is the reason that the picture is so natural, colorful, and natural, with few traces of axes and chisels? The original lies in the photographer in the creation, after some selection and refinement, planning arrangements, organization and structure up and down the effort, in the "management of the location, set the position" reflects the photographer's understanding of life and ingenuity. Therefore, we must carry out a series of organizational arrangements in the creation, clever structure, careful layout, highlighting the main aspects, emphasize the essence of things, and the theme of the work is reflected in the organization of the distinctive image.

Composition is to study all the structural forms and laws of composition, the principles and principles of compositional structure, and the correspondence between composition and various forms of thinking. Composition must be built on the basis of all thinking science. Illustration: Simple geometric shapes can also help you to compose a picture. Can you see an imaginary triangle formed by connecting these three nuns? Triangles add a strong visual harmony to your picture.

But whether composition also reflects the laws of objectivity is still a matter of opinion. Some people believe that the "painting is not fixed", because the objective is ever-changing, emotional and ideological content is even more diverse and complex, so no one can tell the law of the structure of the composition. Engels said "the universal form of nature is the law", so it can be seen that the law is the universal form. Practice has proved that the structure of the composition is a certain law, in the Chinese painting theory, "operating position, layout, layout, structure, light and color" are about the composition of the law of incisive exposition.

In traditional Chinese painting, the structure of the composition is called "chapter" or "layout", "the first chapter of the paper painting". The location of the operation as in Go, the grid can be down, do not be confused. Plain paper can also be used to drop ink everywhere, but remember not to express your brush indiscriminately. Chess has a chess road, painting has a painting theory, a go wrong as a chess game. The ancients will be chapter (composition) compared to chess, photography is also so, there should be a certain chapter and layout, set up a position.

The composition of the picture is like writing an essay, so that there is a chapter and a law, there is a main, echo each other, the contrast between the real and the imaginary, hiding and revealing the hidden, simple and complex, sparse and dense, etc. The composition of the law, subject to the requirements of the theme of the performance, and at the same time, to achieve the overall sense of form of a perfect and harmonious unity.