What is Composition about? (full video) by Rob the Art Teacher

Here is a 'thinking tool' for art students on COMPOSITION. In this video art lesson I reveal the real reason art students need to 'Think Composition.' Plus, there are lots of useful graphics - like a 'how to' guide - as we analyse a variety of composition designs that artists have used through the ages.

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Rob Garrett is an accomplished art teacher, writer, and curator. With fine art and art history degrees from leading New Zealand Universities, he is a qualified teacher with experience teaching art to all ages, having worked in primary (elementary) schools, high schools, and higher education art schools (academies), including a time as the Head of New Zealand’s oldest art school, in Dunedin. His public service includes periods as a senior manager of arts development and as a Council member (governance) with New Zealand’s arts council. His international work with artists has included directing and establishing artist residency programmes, managing New Zealand’s presence at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, and curating numerous public art exhibitions, festivals, and city-wide programs.


ILLUSTRATIONS:

The character drawings used in this video are by illustrator David Roberts
http://davidrobertsillustration.com/i...

THE ARTISTS (in order of their first appearance):

Paul Klee, Senecio (1922), oil on canvas on panel, Kunstmuseum Basel
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo, c.1503-1506, oil on poplar panel, Louvre, Paris (retouched)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, 1889. The Met
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...

Eugène Delacroix Christ on the Sea of Galilee (1841), oil on canvas
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Eu...

Lee Krasner, Night Creatures, 1965, oil on canvas. The Met.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...

Lee Krasner, Blue and Black, 1951-1953. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
https://www.mfah.org/blogs/inside-mfa...

Léon Spilliaert, Silhouette of the painter, 1907
https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoe...

Piet Mondriaan, Composition No. 10. (1939-42), oil on canvas. 80 x 73 cm. Private collection
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Rob the Art Teacher (Rule of Thirds)

Pietro Perugino, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter (1481-1482), fresco, Sistine Chapel, Rome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliver...)

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat (after 1872), oil on canvas, National Gallery, London
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Mary Cassatt, In the Loge (Box), 1878
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/3...

Caravaggio, Conversion on the Way to Damascus, 1600-1601, oil on canvas, 230 x 175 cm. Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convers...

David Hockney, Garrowby Hill, 1998
https://thedavidhockneyfoundation.org...

Sonia Delaunay, Automne, c.1965, lithograph
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/sonia-d...

Carmen Herrera, Alba (2014)
https://www.lissongallery.com/news/wa...

Anmanari Brown, Seven Sisters Dreaming
http://tunbridgegallery.com.au/artwor...

Johannes Vermeer, The Little Street (Het Straatje), c.1657-58, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lit...

Kara Walker, Norma, 2015, graphite on paper, 30.9 x 38.1 cm © Kara Walker
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/maga...

Ralph Hotere, Black Cerulean, The Chartwell Project
https://chartwell.org.nz/seeing/colle...

Paula Rego, Snow White and Her Stepmother 1995
http://www.casadashistoriaspaularego....

Joyce Kozloff, If I Were a Botanist the Pale, 2014, acrylic, mixed media and collage on canvas, (4 panels)
http://www.joycekozloff.net/2013-2015...

MUSIC:
This video uses the music “Cute” from https://www.bensound.com