Composition can refer to the area of a sheet in which the design appears in a drawing or print.
When a composition is limited to a distinct area of a plate or a sheet of paper , it is good practise to note the composition's measurements, as well as the measurements of the plate and of the overall sheet. The design of a composition should either be pleasing or otherwise expressive . The term has also come to refer to any work of art , because any work's composition is so essential to it. It has an excellent page on general compositional layout on which the four types of composition in the above graphic are explained. Chalkboard comes from the College of Art at Southern Arkansas University.