It features a lively, off-center composition and begins to divorce line from color in a way that became Gauguin's major contribution to modern painting, notably that of Picasso.
We see her first just out of the toddler stage; then as a young girl posed in a garden and indoors; then, in an oddly off-center composition, looking wan, her hair cut short.
His bold chromaticism, off-center composition, and frequent use of vertical framing attracted attention the work reminded people of Japanese painting and Abstract Expressionism and he was included in "Always the Young Strangers," an exhibition curated by Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953.
His bold chromaticism, off-center composition, and frequent use of vertical framing attracted attention — the work reminded people of Japanese painting and Abstract Expressionism — and he was included in "Always the Young Strangers," an exhibition curated by Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953.
They like neat frames, centered compositions, loud colors and slow burns.
Some designs derive from tantric art and feature centered compositions of faces or imposing multilimbed beings, like the long-tongued deities depicted by Pushpa Kuimari.
Frank V. Ross wrote and directed this slice of Midwestern mumblecore in a style — overlapping dialogue, off-center compositions, a jumpy, disconnected narrative — that suggests Robert Altman without any of Altman's instincts for character and poetry.
In every aspect of technique — from the smoky colors and the bustling, off-center compositions to the architecture of the story and the emotional precision of the performances — this film is a work of absolute mastery.
Some of Cronenberg's most stunning and subtle directorial touches are mere framings — the off-center compositions that put Benjie toward the edge of the frame, not commanding his space by looking across the frame but aiming his gaze out his own side of the frame, as if he's both being pushed out of place and is desperate to leave it.
Off-center compositions leave vast, empty spaces where evil can lurk; a nervous camera catches blurry figures an instant before they disappear behind a door frame; fiendishly mixed sound effects make it seem as if foul forces are rattling about, not just in the attic or basement, but inside your head.
