Student Activity
Composition Basics (Teacher)
Shaping the View: Composition Basics
1. Compose a Visual Symphony: Three sides to many stories
Annibale Carracci’s 1590 painting, Two Children Teasing a Cat
Emmanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware
2. Compose a Visual Symphony: Variety of Visions
George Catlin’s Ojibbeway Indians in Paris
- Catlin (Paris) Line Drawing
- Catlin (Paris) Diagram Figure 1 (oval)
- Catlin (Paris) Diagram Figure 2 (ellipse)
George Catlin’s Snow Shoe Dance- Ojibbeway
Vittore Carpaccio’s The Flight into Egypt
3. Compose a Visual Symphony: Pulling towards the Center
Cima da Conegliano’s Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist
Sandro Botticelli’s Adoration of the Magi
Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates