{"id":185,"date":"2020-04-02T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T19:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/?p=185"},"modified":"2020-05-06T06:57:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T10:57:28","slug":"drawings-at-home-claire-traum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/drawing\/week-1\/drawings-at-home-claire-traum\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawings at Home–Claire Traum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Considering Diebenkorn is one of your inspirations (and a good one), think more about composition. Love the way the dog is in kind of a rectilinear silhouette. Bringing the sides closer emphasizes this (a rectangle within a rectangle) and strengthens the negative spaces. Note also the line I’ve added at “A.” It might not be true but for the sake of composition we have to take matters into our own hands–I did it to echo the verticals of the couch cushions and the dog’s lower spine, his brow, and collar. It also helps to arrest the rapid retreat of the diagonals (perspective).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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