JoeW
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composition though can get carried away:
certainly there needs to be structure, but structure can take many forms, and there’s a tendency to use whats essential pseudoscientific western numerology as some golden rule (pun intended).
Although often even more entrenched in Western tradition, musicians I think have a stronger vocabulary for composition, with ideas of tension and release and narrative that we visual artists can learn a lot from if we can translate them from the temporal domain of music to the spatial domain of picture.
I disagree. We're defining composition differently. You're assuming there are set rules that must be obeyed! I'm saying there are about 1,000 rules regarding visual art. And it's impossible to follow them all. So wise decisions about composition (when to "fill the frame" vs. when to "use negative space." When to go "high key" vs. when to "use chiaroscuro"--all of those are composition decisions.
To not use composition is to take snapshots.