Molly Bang
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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas-about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story-remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991,...
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A mysterious man enters a restaurant and pays for his dinner with a paper crane that magically comes alive and dances.
The restaurant stood on a busy road. People came and went, day and night, and the owner prospered. But a new highway replaced the old road and now hardly anyone stopped there to rest or eat. One day, a stranger appeared. He was hungry, but said he had no money to pay for a meal. The owner nevertheless fed him generously, and in the...