Favorite Compositions

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>>2736094
Interesting choice

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Durër FTW

>>2736157
>If the grid doesn't fit, just crop a couple inches from the painting

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>>2736312
Oh yeah I fucked that up. I thought the pattern of the trees on the left would be exactly on the gird but the diagonals of the smaller rectangles weren't intersecting at 90 degrees with the diagonal of the whole thing so that was wrong.

This one should be correct and more things are lining up.

>>2736366
>>2736157
What is the point of this?

>>2736297
I always like how simple and effective light guiding can be.

>>2736369
To find out how the composition was made; It's called dynamic symmetry. Because despite what 90% of the people here will say, great artists of the past didn't just eyeball their compositions, they planned them out with simple geometry.

>>2736094
>Verrocchio painted in heavy strokes with lead based paint; Da Vinci painted with lighter strokes using paint that did not contain lead. Consequentially, when the painting is x-rayed Da Vinci's angel disappears.

I doubt this is completely true. I've seen the video where it claims to be the case, and if I remember correctly, it shows even the surface over which the angel was painted in detail. This is not congruent with practice of the time. There is no indication that it's painted over an otherwise completed painting. I have seen examples where the under-layer shows through corrections. Especially if the paint was painted thinly, the under-layer should show. It's much more likely that the angel was designed in its place as it is now, and the designed filled in with color.

Lead is present in lead white and lead-tin yellow. If not these, what did Leonardo use for white? For the sake of argument let's say that he used yellow ochre. Red lead doesn't seem to be present. I suppose the explanation could be that the angel painted in egg tempera, with glazes in oil. Even lead white is used in egg tempera, however. Or perhaps lime white was used, either in oil or tempera. Doubtful.

>>2736157
>>2736366
Dude, you're looking for something that isn't there. Your grid doesn't align with any of the elements in the painting, the only reason why it looks semi-legit is because it's symmetrical by the same axis.

This style only covers symmetry, rhythm and contrast. Geometric grids weren't introduced into composition until later in renaissance.

>>2736411
http://www.leonardodavinci.net/the-annunciation.jsp

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>>2736094
>>2736157
>>2736366
random line coincidence test

>>2736458
Thank you.

I do not agree with these grid theories.

Can we please post compositions and stop derailing with this?

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Rubens

>>2736444
I'm aware of that page. It still doesn't clarify anything technical. It doesn't say what white he used if not lead white, and is also somewhat misleading or ambiguous in saying that Verrocchio used "lead based paint." It suggests lead is in the kind of paint he used (as one would say "oil based paint") and not that among the pigment-paints, he used lead white and lead-tin yellow as is common.

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vortex

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Simple and effective.