What does composition mean?

The meaning of composition refers to the structural arrangement of artistic images in works.

Composition is a plastic art term, that is, when painting, according to the requirements of subject matter and theme, the images to be expressed are properly organized to form a coordinated and complete picture. The meaning of composition refers to the structural arrangement of artistic images in works. It is an important means for plastic arts to express the ideological content of works and gain artistic appeal. Visual arts, especially the skills and terms commonly used in painting, graphic design and photography.

In order to express the theme and aesthetic effect of works, artists arrange and deal with the relationship and position of people and things in a certain space, and form individual or local images into an artistic whole. In China traditional painting, it is called "composition" or "layout".

Origin of composition

The name composition comes from western art, and there is a course called composition in western painting. In the theory of Chinese painting, the name of composition is not composition, but layout, or quotient. In other words, photographic composition is transformed from artistic composition, which we can simply call framing.

Whether it is the layout in Chinese painting or the framing in photography, it only involves part of the composition, and it cannot contain the full meaning of composition. Therefore, it is more scientific and accurate to use the word "component" uniformly.

The purpose of studying composition is to study the relationship between height, width and depth of three-dimensional space on the plane, so as to highlight the theme and enhance the artistic appeal. Whether the composition treatment is appropriate, novel and concise has a great bearing on the success or failure of photographic works of art.

Practically speaking, a successful photographic work of art is the success of composition first. Successful composition can make the content of the work logical, clear-cut, prominent and pleasing to the eye. On the contrary, it will affect the effect of the work, which is chaotic and lacks hierarchy, and the whole work is unintelligible.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Composition