Composition in visual art

ratio between two quantities whose sum is at the same ratio to the larger one

thumb|right|300px|Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, [[Staatsgalerie Stuttgart]] Collage (, from the , "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, by which art results from an assembly of different forms, thus creating a new whole. Collage may refer to the technique as a whole, or more specifically to a two-dimensional work, assembled from flat pieces on a flat substrate, whereas assemblage typically refers to a three-dimensional equivalent.

form of graphical projection where the projection lines converge to one or more points

thumb|right|Giovanni Baglione. Divine Love Conquering Earthly Love (1602–1603), showing dramatic compositional chiaroscuro.

upright=1.3|thumb|Ceiling of the Treasure Room of the National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara |Archaeological Museum of Ferrara, [[Italy, painted in 1503–1506]]

placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art

thumb|upright=1.35|Example of mirror anamorphosis

thumb|A traditional silhouette portrait of the late 18th century A silhouette (, ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhouette is usually presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic medium, but were

composition technique

thumb|A marble copy of Polykleitos' [[Doryphoros, an early example of classical contrapposto.]] thumb|S-curve (art)

pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out

part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement of visual elements on a page

The optical effect on the visibility of objects seen through air with distance

thumb|View of Tivoli at Sunset, 1644, with cows and cowherds as staffage, by Claude Lorrain

unique real number solution to the equation x^3-x-1=0

artistic technique

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to remove unwanted outer parts of an image

space around an object

Italian artistic style

type of presentation of visual elements in relation to other objects

procedure for composing or editing photographs to better conform with the commonly accepted distortions in constructed perspective

arranging of visual elements

In two-dimensional works of art, such as painting, printmaking, photography or bas-relief, repoussoir (, pushing back) is an object along the right or left foreground that directs the viewer's eye into the composition by bracketing (framing) the edge. It became popular with Mannerist and Baroque artists, and is found frequently in Dutch seventeenth-century landscape paintings. Jacob van Ruisdael, for example, often included a tree along one side to enclose the scene (see illustration). Figures are also commonly employed as repoussoir devices by artists such as Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens

word of Japanese origin used in art and design

thumb|A famous example of the Rückenfigur motif: Caspar David Friedrich's [[Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, 1818]]