Tuesday 13 November 2012

Composition Analysis

The first image I've picked for this is Turner's Fire at the Parliament Building (1834).

I think that this image uses the Iconic composition and a vertical Rule of Thirds. Reason being is you have the main centre piece directly in the middle and dominating the image with bright warm colours, as opposed to the framing around it which is all cool colours. The Rule of Thirds is applied to the colours, whereas the iconic composition is applied to objects. For instance, you have the boats at the bottom right at an angle, pointing almost directly at the fire, roughly following along the diagonal line. The fire and its reflection dominate the centre of the image. And to the left of the fire, you have the bridge, which flows directly into the fire, following along the horizontal line. You also have the edge of the river just below the bridge, where there seems to be thousands of people presumably escaping, which also points towards the fire.

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