They vaguely resemble rectangular compositions by Piet Mondrian, but Nissan hopes they make its advertising more science than art: The posters show how the company should divvy up the $930 million it spends to advertise each of its Nissan and Infiniti vehicles across 36 media outlets from roadside billboards to e-mail pitches.
Josef Albers, one of the most important color theorists of the 20th century, is represented by "Coastal" (1948-54), a rectangular oil-on-hardboard composition, and "Red-Orange Wall" (1959), an ochre-hued silk-screen.
Marquesan houses were built on rectangular platforms, the height and composition of which depended on the prestige of the owner.
Each of the eleven images featured was cropped close, cut at the subject's waist or hip, and narrow at the sides, forming rectangular prints of roughly uniform composition, and each subject eleven men and one woman, who appears in the last frame, in the company of a man is captured before a bare plywood wall, facing into the sunlight.
It is a strikingly simple composition of two rectangular boxes: one, a glass and wood pavilion with a single, 15-foot-tall living, dining and kitchen space, is cantilevered over the other, a stone and concrete base that contains, among other things, four small bedrooms, bathrooms and a sitting room.
Cut a small rectangular shaped cloth piece.
"Pitchers" appears at first to be an abstract composition of circular and rectangular shapes in shades of peach around a single, soft-edged center of deep plum.
The ballot paper is rectangular.
"For consistency," the draft said, "the towers are composed of rectangular or trapezoidal solids, arranged in an additive composition.
The generally symmetrical compositions have outer edges of concentric, rectangular bands like those of Oriental rugs.
