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How to Learn Composition

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Composition Training - The Golden Section, the Golden Mean, Golden Mean

In many a composition class, the first thing you study is at the arrangement within the rectangle that you are composing. And there are prescriptions, there are templets. There are ratios that a lot of people have passed down over the ages say, this is a good ratio. The ancient greeks wanted to find out what pleasant divisions were. So somebody took a stick and gave it to all sorts of people and said, hold this stick somewhere from left to right in the way that just feels most pleasing to you,. Just an emotional decision. They tended to grip it toward the middle. Something they calculated, they calculated ow what the math was to quantify what the emotional decision was: This is

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