As a composition, the project is not Graves's worst.
Each dish is presented as a composition, offering plenty to discuss, should other talk flag.
"I like to see these as sort of artwork or as a composition," he said.
As a composition it has the stiffness of an official family portrait.
More staggering yet as a composition is the 1884-85 "Dancers in the Rehearsal Room With a Double Bass".
He also experimented with early sound sculptures, such as a composition that made use of the town's old tube radios.
"We use the word Chimera metaphorically to refer to an image derived as a composition of other images," he writes.
Suzie must have put out the china dish piled with apples for them to paint; gazing at it, they seemed themselves as deliberate as a composition.
I regard a play as a composition rather than a story, as a distillation of life rather than a narration of it...
Ives excelled as a composition student at Yale, in the eighteen-nineties, and knew that he would devote his life to music.
In 1955, he enrolled at the Music Academy in Katowice, where he spent the next five years as a composition student of Boleslaw Szabelski.
