Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures

Part 3 — The Must Be's and May Be's of Composition

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APPENDIX The Concept The Procedure Design Line The Vertical The Horizontal The Diagonal Principality and Sacrifice The Dominant Idea Harmony The Must Be's and May Be's of Composition Perspective Balance Color Tone Quality Don'ts

Of the other principles, Consistency or breadth, Continuity and its complement, Contrast, associate themselves in greater or less degree with Principality and Harmony, which are the must [pg 270] be's; while Repetition, Radiation, Curvature and Interchange are reckoned as the may be's of composition.

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