Concept · Foundations

Cropping and the Edge

Cropping is where the edge of the frame cuts the scene, and what it leaves out.

Dow framed one stand of trees five ways, and each edge slices the trunks differently.

• Degas took inventive cropping from Japanese prints, the Met notes.
• He also saw sixteenth-century painters sometimes cut off part of a figure.

See

• A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
• Paris Street; Rainy Day

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