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Monday Morning Art School: a simple exercise in composition

Diagonals keep us interested because theyā€™re harder for us to ā€œsolveā€. The Artist’s Studio in an Afternoon Fog, 1894, Winslow Homer. Courtesy of Memorial Art Gallery. Winslow Homerā€™s most successful compositional motif was the long diagonal. He used it with great success from the beginning of his career right through to his mature Maine seascapes. …