1. Point of interest; with radiating lines, balance, and other means of making it prominent.
2. The cycle of colors, complete color, and the contrast of light and darkness.
3. A story, not embodied in the picture itself, but needing words of explanation, spoils unity.
4. Unnecessary detail, detracting from central interest and motive, also spoils unity.
b. Truth in painting:
1. Falseness of photographic truth, because of its lack of unity and purpose.
α. The “out-of-focus” and imaginatively planned photograph sometimes artistic.
2. Perspective, the painter’s vision of the single complete experience.
3. To see beauty in things is to see the truth.
4. “Prettiness,” the result of catering to the shortcomings of the spectator’s taste, is a violation of the artist’s taste or sense of completeness and truth.