Composition - examples of note

[Mike McCarty]

Enzie,

Those are beautiful paintings. I

[Allan Rahbek]

[QUOTE=Mike McCarty]
Wouldn

[Mike McCarty]

Mike wrote:
[QUOTE]Wouldn

[Allan Rahbek]

Originally Posted by Mike McCarty

Mike wrote:


Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?

Mike,
I'd bet that the one eyed fat man said it with passion and conviction.!!! ....see it's the execution that makes it art.

[Mike McCarty]

Originally Posted by Mike McCarty:

Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?

Ned Pepper: I'd call that bold talk for a one eyed fat man.

Mike,
I'd bet that the one eyed fat man said it with passion and conviction.!!! ....see it's the execution that makes it art.

Allan,

You are right, John Wayne, as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit," said it with so much passion and conviction that it got him an academy award. Robert Duvall as Ned Pepper has also won an academy award for "Tender Mercies." He's also the one that said: "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning" in the movie "Apocolypse Now."

I believe, as Ned Pepper came to realize, that you should never come between a man and his passionately held convictions. Unless of course there's a woman involved then all bets are off.

[Mike McCarty]

I like these compositions:

The first is presumably a Russian painter. I found it among the ones that SB posted, but couldn't find a name to associate with it. I like the subtle offsets in the pose, like the cocked head and just the suggestion of the right hand which breaks up the line of the right side.

The second is by Arthur Hughes - A music party, 1864. This is a clever four person composition, I think.

The third is from Leon Perrault,1832-1908 - The flower vendor. A pleasant head and shoulder with some tricky hand work.

This last one is more for the interesting nature of the scene. Maybe scenes like this are played out now somewhere, but I've never seen one ... have you? I think the two guys sword fighting are using paint brushes and have palettes and mahl sticks in the other hand. This is the way combat should be.

Actually, I think they are using swords. Looks like some kind of battle scene is being reinacted for a painting.

Horace Vernet, The Artists Studio, 20x25, 1820.

You can get a better look here:
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/databa...e.asp?id=27956

[Marcus Lim]

Originally Posted by Mike McCarty

IThe first is presumably a Russian painter. I found it among the ones that SB posted, but couldn't find a name to associate with it. I like the subtle offsets in the pose, like the cocked head and just the suggestion of the right hand which breaks up the line of the right side.

I found out this is a piece by Yaroshenko, who incidentally did some of the famous pieces found on this website.
http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~mfchen/pain...yaroshenka.htm