In a message dated 12/31/2002 6:37:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The mere fact that your instructors didn't see fit to give you a good > education, or didn't know the difference doesn't make them or you > right. You said you had never heard about the rule of thirds well it's in > just about every basic photography or art book I've ever > read. That's what > I find Ironic. Which was exactly my point. The rule of thirds is mentioned in PHOTOGRAPHY books. Not how-to-draw art books (get a hold of some and see). (BTW - I had a perfectly decent art education when I was an art major in college -- involving more than one college in fact). No "rules" about composition are taught in art classes that I can recall. (I can't recall one.) Because the whole concept that composition can be reduced down to some set of rules, is basically silly. Again, what I stated was the rule of thirds is not some well-known artistic rule that artists are taught. That is pure myth. Later, Doe aka Marnie :-)
