Creating a fun, interesting, quality composition in art requires only a few ingredients. One of these concepts is the proverbial element of finding the rhythm, or pattern that carries through your image. Whether it's the focal point of your drawing, photograph, sculpture, dance, poem, Italian aria or whether it holds the composition together in a subtle, gentle, style like the sound of the earth rotating around the sun; rhythm is the dance.
The photos above were taken in the gloriously romantic city of Rome, Italy. One of these photographs is an unusual perspective of the famous Pantheon, taken by Corbett B. Leith. Can you tell which one ( Hint: the Pantheon's main structure is cylindrical and you maaaaayyyyy be able to make out the 125 AD stamps on the bricks)? Any masterful surmising as to what those triangular slices of light and shadow are? In each one of these photographs at least one or more shapes have been repeated throughout the image to create a sense of rhythm. This repetition holds the photograph together the same way a beat holds you and moves you when listening to music. It draws you in.
Is there rhythm in the silhouette of the chandelier? You can decide for yourself, but the strong vertical and horizontal stripes of the window panes offset the graceful curves of the iron frame that curl and bend in its own rhythmical style. Following suit, the columns in the far right image, taken in front of the Vatican, establish depth and rhythm, the bottom image ( the back wall of the Pantheon taken from a rear alley) reveals a beautiful brick pattern that zips horizontally across the curved wall while subtle arch like patterns offset it vertically. Finally, the descending, curvilinear stone steps in the center photograph, taken in front of a Bernini chapel, suggest rhythm and movement in its simplest form, changing a seemingly mundane subject into a curious, abstract composition.
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