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    Rabatment is a technique used by painters to help compose subjects within a rectangular painting format. It involves dividing the rectangle into a square with sides equal to the short side of the rectangle. This helps place the most important elements and creates a unified, harmonious, and balanced composition. Rabatment is one design principle among others that must be employed together for successful compositions.

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    Rabatment is a technique used by painters to help compose subjects within a rectangular painting format. It involves dividing the rectangle into a square with sides equal to the short side of the rectangle. This helps place the most important elements and creates a unified, harmonious, and balanced composition. Rabatment is one design principle among others that must be employed together for successful compositions.

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    Rabatment is a technique used by painters to help compose subjects within a rectangular painting format. It involves dividing the rectangle into a square with sides equal to the short side of the rectangle. This helps place the most important elements and creates a unified, harmonious, and balanced composition. Rabatment is one design principle among others that must be employed together for successful compositions.

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    REBATMENT For each landscape (horizontal) rectangle, there

    is either a right or left rabatment and for each


    Painters rely on an array of methods for finding
    portrait (vertical) rectangle there is an upper or
    the best placement of their subjects within a
    lower.
    painting’s edges. One of the easiest methods to
    use and understand is to place the subject within
    the rabatment of the rectangle.
    Dianne Mize in Art Tutorials

    When you use this simple technique to compose


    A technique for creating better compositions is your oil paintings, you are more likely to create a
    called “rabatment of the rectangle.” composition that is unified, harmonious and
    balanced.
    A rabatment is used in paintings with rectangular
    formats. This technique helps you place your most Teresa Bernard
    important compositional elements. By consciously
    applying this approach, your compositions will be
    stronger.

    Explore-drawing-and-painting.com by Connie Lee

    Painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze using rabatment and


    circular composition to fix the subject firmly in place.

    Rabatment is only one design principle in a much


    Rabatment is a way to divide up the space within
    a rectangular shape to create a square with four larger system. Other design techniques must be
    employed in order to make this compositional
    equal sides that are equal to the short side of the
    method successful.
    rectangle.
    Kimberly Elam's Book Geometry of Design
    Simply put, it’s the perfect square found inside
    any rectangle.

    Painting, “Death of Marat” by Jacques-Louis David

    Gustave Caillebotte Boater Pulling on His


    Perissoire

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