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Explanation of constituent nouns

Terminology of composition and plastic arts. Refers to the structural configuration method 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.

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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.

What is the purpose of learning composition? It is to study the relationship between the 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 is handled properly, novel and concise has a great relationship with 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.