The result is an intricate but somewhat static composition made up of a variety of close-ups.

The painting, one of his more fluent, less static compositions, is the most effective of a trilogy of huge canvases devoted to the Vietnam War (and the only one shown here).

What was once conceived as a genuine architectural experience shaped by the visitor's movement into the earth is now a static composition of conventional reflecting pools.

Centering the subject often contributes to a static composition so you should aim to place the point of interest away from the centre of the frame.

Mr. Anderson favors static, head-on compositions stuffed with beguiling details, and Mr. Murray holds still for him, allowing the audience's eyes to peruse his carefully arranged surroundings.

The filmmaker would paradoxically retain his static compositions even when a character was shown walking or riding, by moving the camera with a dolly at the precise speed at which the actor or actors moved.

"Veluti in Speculum" (1962) is a surprisingly static composition of vari-size, vari-color rectangles, bars and squares whose hard-edged rigidity is loosened by rich, nuanced painting.

Harrison et al proposed subject-oriented programming as a solution, which by static composition avoids any issues of object schizophrenia.

Very long compositions, static compositions, and process compositions all suggest alternatives to the linear cause-and-effect mode of listening appropriate to classical music.

Critics of Caravaggio's insistence on painting only from life would later point out this limitation of his method: it lent itself to marvelously realistic (if theatrical) static compositions, but not to scenes involving movement and violence.