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Composition: as pattern, as structure, as expression

United States, 1986
film

The arrangement of the elements within a painting is examined. The program shows how the masters have organised their paintings according to the principles of..

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Composition

United States, 1950
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The Elements of composition

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Structure within the image

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Images pour Bach

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Techniques

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Cubism

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Abstraction

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