There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.

She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.

She gave them some broth without any bread.

Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.

The shoes were flushing down the whirl

to the bottom where the old woman was at

Rotation and change of scale creates a sense of depth

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Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

an unbalanced composition

Consists of different images and overlapping texture

Contrast variation with the left side being lower and the right being extreme black & white

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She gave them some broth without any bread.

The composition that seems symmetrical but not completely

The black background and white diamond creates a stage with spotlight

And the hero for the play is the bottle

The show is on and the many faces appear like the audience

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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.

As mentioned by Prof Ina. This composition made use of a technique called Gestalt.

‘Gestalt’ is a psychology term which means “unified whole”. It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.”

The positive space in the composition will be the two halves of the old woman’s face

Yet with a small heel tiled at an angle,

the negative space appears like a person with a wicked smile

it indicates the dark side of the friendly and kind-looking old lady

And it is upside-down from the original picture,

which also imply a message of something being wrong

 

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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.

I like the wired and mysterious smile of the old woman

It seems like she is looking at somewhere out from the window of the shoe she lived in

And the shoe being presented in black and white  on the background of the opposite color

This composition is simple with big contrast and just some small texture to balance it out

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She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.

A  radial composition

The old woman is at the center,

symbolizing the sun

burning out her energy for so many children she had

When looked closely carefully,

you will discover the children are facing different directions,

they are in a chaos

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She gave them some broth without any bread.

The two compositions are arranged together as they flow naturally

together

The contrast in the images brings the focus

The second composition consist of the bottle as well as many hands,

which appear in other composition,

making a connection among the series.