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Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures

by Henry Rankin Poore

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For students and lovers of art, Henry Rankin Poore wrote a handbook on how pictures are built and how to judge them. Part I treats composition: kinds of balance, how the eye enters and leaves a picture, circular and angular arrangements, the line of beauty and the rectangle, groups of figures, light and shade, and the place of photography in fine art. Hints on judging pictures critically are added as well.

Poore, himself a painter, hoped to loosen the superstitious reverence given to the old masters. He dedicated the book to his first teacher, Peter Moran, and it first appeared in 1903.

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Henry Rankin Poore

Henry Rankin Poore worked as an American painter, illustrator, teacher, lecturer, and critic whose books translated studio experience into arguments about visual judgment. The conception of art, issued by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1913 and later revised, asks what art means across periods and schools rather than treating taste as an unexplained instinct.

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Pages
210
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