Complete the account of composition.
Arnheim called the pattern of centre, axes and diagonals that a rectangle carries its structural ______. An element's pull on the balance is its weight multiplied by its distance from the ______. On a canvas 100 cm wide the rule-of-thirds verticals fall at 33.3 and ______ cm. The French stretcher family with the widest proportion for a given long side is the ______ format.
Word bank: skeleton · centre · 66.7 · marine · diagonal · figure
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Arnheim called the pattern of centre, axes and diagonals that a rectangle carries its structural skeleton. An element's pull on the balance is its weight multiplied by its distance from the centre. On a canvas 100 cm wide the rule-of-thirds verticals fall at 33.3 and 66.7 cm. The French stretcher family with the widest proportion for a given long side is the marine format.
The third blank is worth computing rather than remembering. Dividing by hand is what shows how coarse the grid actually is at this size, and it sets up the comparison with the golden divisions that the questions below ask you to work out for yourself.
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