M4 Rendering
Additional Learning Materials on the Topic of Visual Composition
These notes collate resources on visual styles and approaches to composition and framing. Their intention is to illustrate a variety of visual styles and successful principles. You can find authorship using reverse image search. Included links provide some background on the artists and designers.
This selection is not comprehensive, use it to get some starting points for your own personal exploration.
Artistic Work
- Cubism
- Surrealism
- Renaissance
- Piranesi
- Baroque and Rococo
- Constructivism and Suprematism, while not focusing on the challenges of the accurate perspectives, these movements can provide contrasting ideas regarding composition and purpose of space and matter.
Aleksandr Rodchenko’s Lines of Force – Tate Papers | Tate
Theatre and Set Design
- Theatrical sets and influences
- Japanese theatre, No, Kabuki, Bunraki
- Asian shadow theatre
Shadow and Puppet Theatre | Asian Traditional Theatre & Dance
Russia’s stage revolution: when theatre was a hotbed for impossibly space-age design
Garden and Park Design
Film Composition
Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis film set
Playtime, Jacques Tati
Absurdities of Modernity: Playtime
Rome, Fellini
Landscape Painting
Architecture in Art
Escher
Architectural Drawing
PAPER ARCHITECTS | Floornature
Architects Dreaming of a Future With No Buildings
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Urban Projects
Drawing power: an exhibition of early artworks by Zaha Hadid
Maps and Terrains
The Zilsel Thesis: A Review of Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps (2020): Review
Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)
Film Storyboards and Graphic/Comic Books
A review of graphic books in relation to architecture
What Inspires Me From Graphic Novels and Comics
Metropolis, scene 12, cut no. 7 et al., final production background, Shuichi Kusamori, poster color on paper, 19 3/4 inches x 27 7/8 inches. (© 2001 TEZUKA PRODUCTIONS / METROPOLIS COMMITTEE. Licensed from BANDAI NAMCO Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved)
AKIRA, cut no. 2211, final production background, Hiroshi Ono, poster color on paper, 19 3/4 inches x 14 1/4 inches, based on the graphic novel AKIRA by Katsuhiro Otomo. First published by Young Magazine, Kodansha Ltd. (© 1988 MASH • ROOM / AKIRA COMMITTEE, All Rights Reserved)
Released in 1995, the animated movie was directed by Mamoru Oshii, and featured artwork by Production IG
