The Power of the Center a Study of Composition in the Visual Arts

Author: Arnheim Rudolf R
Publication date: 23/10/2009

What deternines the overall organization of visual form in works op painting, sculpture, and architecture? Artists have sometimes ventured practical rules of thumb, and mathmaticians have looked for formulas that would prescribe ideal spatial relations between shapes. This Companion to Rudolf Arnheim's classic, Art and Visual Perception, shows how compositional form makes sense only when it utilizes visual symbols of the life experience that makes art meaningful. Book jacket.

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