Composition is the organizational arrangement of various images and formal factors in the picture, that is, the method of organizing individual and local images into an artistic whole. Composition involves various forms of rules and expression skills. The appreciation of all kinds of compositions can be grasped and analyzed from the relevant knowledge of the rules of composition form, but it is more important to know whether the overall form of the composition and the subject matter are complementary.
Artistic language is the existing form of artistic image in the picture, that is, the external form of the work. Artistic language consists of different levels of vocabulary, namely "media vocabulary", "technique vocabulary" and "image vocabulary". These words are relatively independent and interrelated. When appreciating artistic language, on the one hand, we can appreciate the aesthetic significance of different levels of vocabulary (such as the appreciation of China's freehand brushwork techniques), and more importantly, we should grasp the aesthetic characteristics as the overall creative style of the work.
Generally speaking, the so-called formal beauty in artistic creation and works mainly refers to the combination of colors, lines, shapes, light and shade, space and other artistic languages that are both harmonious (in line with general norms) and creative (expressing individual colors). In the history of art development, there are many general laws about formal beauty (such as circle, sphere, triangle, golden section, snake line, etc. ) and the law of formal beauty (such as symmetry, balance, order, harmony, rhythm, rhythm, unity of change, etc. ) has been summed up. These laws of formal beauty have certain independence and universality, which are consistent with and related to people's physiological structure and psychological feelings, and are also the products of human aesthetic culture accumulation. As Kant said when talking about aesthetics: "People are connected and the reason is the same." At the same time, because formal beauty is the product of different cultures in the history of human aesthetics, it must have the experience and cultural significance of different times, nationalities, regions and even different individuals. In this sense, the appreciation of formal beauty can not only stay on the surface of intuitive "formal beauty", but also go deep into the level of meaning.
On the other hand, formal beauty in works of art also refers to artistic language and language expression with its own characteristics, which is adapted to different kinds of art or different media materials, such as the sense of color, modeling and texture in oil painting, the interest, description and painting in Chinese painting, and the so-called interest in oil painting, Chinese painting, printmaking and sculpture in Chinese painting. As the products accumulated in the artistic creation and appreciation practice of classic works in history, these works also have specific aesthetic taste and cultural connotation, and are also important contents of artistic form appreciation.