{"id":302,"date":"2020-04-02T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/?p=302"},"modified":"2020-04-09T08:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T12:55:43","slug":"302-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/302-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace’s Living Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve made some adjustments in Photoshop to show you how the following suggestions would look.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening up the foreground just a bit more gives a better foundation for the furniture and bookcase and gives the viewer a visual “foothold” in the space.<\/p>\n

Bookshelves aren’t paper thin–showing their dimension helps to divide and articulate the space, strengthen the character of the room, and make it more convincing. Likewise the mullions on the French door.<\/p>\n

The base of the side table needs to be lower than the baseboard–otherwise it appears to be floating.<\/p>\n

Making the base of the side table tangent to the bottom edge inhibits the perception of space; neither in nor out of the picture.<\/p>\n

In yours, the bottom of the French door extends well beyond the bottom of the door opening. By correcting it it moves back in space, more unified with the plane of the bookcase.<\/p>\n

\"\"Avigdor Arikha<\/strong>, Books<\/em>, 1977, Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 31.75 inches<\/a><\/p>\n

A similar composition by Avigdor Arika<\/strong> (1929-2010). You’ll note he also crops out the floor, but he does it a little higher so that its more decisive and not teetering on a tipping point (i.e., is it in or is it out?). Note too the slight angle of the French door (which happens to be more in the foreground than yours) to urge the eye into the scene. You do this nicely with the top of the door frame in the upper right, but better had it been drawn without a bow in it–oh, unless it’s an arched door opening, in which case that could be more convincing as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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