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Originally Posted by Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco
I really love to have elements behind the subject, so that he or she is placed somewhere in a domestic environment.
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Hi Ilaria,
The painting by the Italian artist is a good example of using rectangular shapes within a rectangular shape to help focus the composition onto the subject. If you are really interested in these types of scenes you might start a notebook of similar compositions and compare how each artist handled problems such as dark head against light background, light head against dark, lost edges and soft edges, warm against cool, landscape outside vs. empty space, etc. Directing the eye with shapes frequently seems to me less "obvious" than directing the eye with line. (Compositional issues are on my mind too because I am starting a similar notebook on the topic "circles")
And I like how you have painted the boy, by the way.
