January 15, 2020 - [caption id="attachment_49428" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] The rhythm of a shape - in this case the shape of a crowd of figures-is designed to be in counter rhythm to the sillouette of the distant hills. It helps to make a viewer "accept" this loosly painted image as a representation of reality. The shape could just as easily be a reclining figure or a wave on the beach- the same principles apply.[/caption] I went through several areas of study at UC Davis before I became an Art History major. The classes where people actually made "art" seemed to be irrelevant to what I was interested in... so I spent alot of that  six years looking at art, thinking about what I liked, and what I didn’t like, and what my future in the art world could possibly be. …