Creative Challenge

Creative Challenge

Composition

 Structure of a creative work

May 21, 2012

Assignment:              Create Composition

                        Creations will be shared and discussed at MVCA Meeting on June 18, 2012 at 7 pm.

Discussion:    Define Composition

1. the act of combining parts or elements to form a whole. **

2. the resulting state or product.

3. manner of being composed; structure: This painting has an orderly composition.

4. makeup; constitution: His moral composition was impeccable.

5. an aggregate material formed from two or more substances: a composition of silver and tin.

“Composition” in reference to:

Ø    (logical fallacy), in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property

Ø   combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions

Ø      an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones

Ø      a way of writing a positive integer as a sum of positive integers

Ø      law of composition, usually called a binary function

Ø      (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work

Ø     (language), in literature, oratory, and rhetoric, producing a work of spoken tradition or written literature

Ø      (music) an original piece of music and its creation and or structure

Ø      (dance) practice and teaching of choreography

Ø      (digital) the practice of digitally piecing together a video

Rule of Thirds - Rule of Odds - Rule of Space

Movement through the work, placement of points of interest

**Combination of Contrast, Continuity, Emphasis, Balance

Framing, cropping, editing, simplifying

Visual Structure Types:

Angular, Bridge, Cantilever, Central, Circle, Cruciform (t), Curvilinear, Even, Diagonal, Diamond, Grid, Horizontal, L-Shape, Radial, Triangle, Two Centers, Parallels and Vertical

Visual (including crafts) ò Music ò Literature/poetry ò Dance/movement ò Acting ò more…