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Indeed it is. I had a professor that was always telling me, "How are you breaking the space? Are you sure that you're breaking it properly? Think about the space before you, and break it in an interesting way." Even though that was about seven years ago now I still hear him telling me about breaking the space!
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haha. That's cool. Most of my background is in music, and I can remember, when I honestly told the prof that I didn't like practicing scales, and he said, "It's your funeral, then". He was right, I found out later, and I had to work hard to stay away from my own funeral.
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The basics are what always get us in the end! I'm glad that professor kept egging me on about breaking the space though, it certainly helps with making dynamic layouts.
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Yes, now that you've "broken the space", you can make "dynamic layouts", of course, of course.
By the way, what's a 'dynamic layout", anyway.
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Hahaha, that's a hard one to define. From what my professor said it means that you use the space that the art inhabits in a way that leads the viewers eye. One of the aspects that he stressed the most was the rule of thirds. Which is basically that we shouldn't center things. I guess the eye likes it better if the subject is more to the left, right, top or bottom. He was also very into movement in pictures. He also had a couple of other tricks that never really caught on with me. It's tough to follow all the aspects of dynamic layouts that he set out for us, but it's also fun to try!
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I've given this a lot of thought, too. The so-called rule of thirds is one that I railed against for a long time, but then I realized that it has it's place. I think the key to it is that the use of "negative space" as an aid to focusing on the main point is especially useful in print media, which is by nature very small. It's like staking out a bigger claim for the eye to see. It would be silly to suggest to Gainsborough or Reynolds or any other great portrait painter that they should not have centered their subjects. How ridiculous. The paintings are huge and hang in prominent places on walls. The rule of thirds would not apply to grand works.
Your professor sounds like he had some very interesting ideas...movement and all, but the bottom line is...what the heigh-ho are we trying to express, in any given work, anyway!! There are some ideas which require more negative space to shine forth to the viewer, and there are others that truly do not. The same thing could be said about the movement thing. Some works require a quiet and peacefullness for which movement would be a serious distraction.
I agree with you, though, it's all fun trying these different things.
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Hahaha, ya' I used to but heads with him over things like that. I agree that the piece dictates how the rules should be used, most certainly. Plus if too many people use the rule of thirds too much than what one was a dynamic way to make a layout starts to become a static layout, just by the virtue that everything else is the same.
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