In each of these still life paintings, you have to identify and draw the major compositional lines as possible compositional formats as basic compositional formats. A pdf file of possible basic Compositional Formats is attached. From, these possible basic Compositional Formats, find the basic composioton format in each painting. In each of these still life paintings, you have to find the basic compositional format. Each of the still life paintings of different artists has a basic compositional format. I did the first one as an example, which has an X format, and you have to do rest of them like this. Which format each of these painting has, you have to find that and draw the format on the painting. Basic compositional formats include: Circle, horizontal line, cross, rectangle, triangle H-form, X, S, Z and combination Z and S (arabesque)
Nicolas Poussin, the Abduction of the Sabine Women, 1634
Matisse, Still Life 20th century.
Georges Braque The Viaduct at L’Estaque 1908, Check out diagonals
The Battle between Christians and Moors at El Sotillo, Francisco de Zurbaran, 1639, Check out direction from top flag
Nicolas Poussin, the Abduction of the Sabine Women, 1634
Botticelli “Birth of Venus “ c. 1484–1486 Look at WHOLE painting, not just horizon
Rembrandt, Self Portrait, 1638 (look at negative space transitions)
Bonnard, “The Garden“ 1935
Ingres, La Comtesse D’Houssonville, 1865 (Major compositional lines – not a triangle)
Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, 1842
Also, find the basic composition of these two images, I did the first one as an example, you have to do both of them like this one, for instance, the first one is the format of triangle composition, for the rest of the two, you have to find the format of composition. Which compositional format the rest of the two have?
Still life, pitcher and fruit, 1894- Paul Cezanne, I have attached a pdf file, where you can see how to do the gridding. Look at the file to grid this painting.
