Composition: Rules and the Role of Personal Intuition -119

Discussion of various aspects of composition and particularly the interplay between “rules” and logic and the strictly intuitive, the “deeper” personal response..

In Response to
Richard

QUESTION: I have read many things about design, composition and “rules” one can apply. I get the sense that distinctive design is largely a matter of understanding the core features (line-value-color as you point out ) and developing an instinct for what will work best for the situation at hand. As with good drawing, I don’t believe it’s a matter of merely getting things correct as by measuring for example. One can compose according to rules and still end up with a boring picture. To make music as you wisely point out should not a sense of design come from some deeper place?

Richard