“Yes, so that there would be contrasts of color that would be pleasing to the eye. Then there should be balance. Have you any idea what that means?”
Nobody had.
“I wonder if you haven’t all noticed a Japanese print that Margaret has?”
“You mean the one with big green leaves up in one corner and the grasshopper clinging to a tendril?” asked Helen.
“That’s the one,” returned Miss Daisy. “Did it ever occur to you that those leaves were all crowded off into one corner of the picture?”
“I never thought of it,” said Margaret, “and I have looked at it every day for a year. They are, aren’t they?”
“But it didn’t affect you unpleasantly, did it?”
“Why, no. I think it’s a pretty picture,” said Ethel Brown.
“It is,” agreed Miss Graham; “but what device did the artist use to make you feel comfortable about it, and to make you forget that he had put a bunch of foliage up in one corner and had left more than one-half of his sheet blank?”
Nobody could answer this question and Miss Graham had to give the explanation herself.