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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.