Composition is visual storytelling in its most concise form, reduced to its most simple geometry. How do you express longing or grief without words or facial expressions? How do you convey motion and rhythm without movement?
Composition is your macro storytelling. Simple shape and colour are sculpted into your leading lines, as they’re called in photography, also known as radiating lines within the painting world.
These are edges, formed by things like perspective lines, silhouettes and intersections, that guide the eye through the canvas and provide flow and momentum moulded to create and reinforce different emotions and actions. Highly organised and symmetrical
