Matching composition to the setting?

[Julie Deane]

Thanks, Alex and Jean.

I wasn't thinking of doing anything too unusual or complicated. More along the lines of a somewhat lower perspective than head-on. Like you mentioned, Alex.

This subject just got me thinking about a painting I saw years ago at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota. The docent said that it had been designed with a visual perspective to be seen "correctly" from an angle. Apparently, it was placed in a certain corner of an alcove in a church, and could only be seen from one direction. So the perspective had to be altered so that it would read right.

Those artists from generations before had some pretty sophisticated thinking!