>>979086
Might need to broaden your vocabulary then.
I'll break it down for ya.
>Composition
How something is laid out, ideally in a pleasing way. The word can also be used to describe a whole piece and the elements (that are about to be listed) used. You can think of composition as both the "big picture" that you're trying to get across, but you can also micro-manage everything in your piece into compositions themselves.
>Color Theory
How colors work together, and their relationships. To a lesser extent, "how do the colors make you FEEL?". Broadly, it's also the framework on how you can mix colors in paints. You might already know some basic color theory, like how yellow+blue make green, or simple complementary colors like how red and green works well together (if a bit Christmas-y)
>Positive & Negative Space
Positive space refers to all the shit taking up your composition that you want someone to look at (subjects, and other elements), while negative space is the empty bits. Negative space isn't a bad thing though, and it's actually pretty important to have as it gives the eye a place to rest, and keeps a composition from being too busy (aka too much shit that makes the piece just look like noise). In your image >>979067 the positive space would be the structures, while the negative would be the ground and sky.
>Contrast
In simple terms it's the difference between light and dark areas of your composition, but there's a bit more to it than that. Instead, contrast is more akin to the differences between two (or more) similar elements. You can have a contrast with dark/bright areas, positive/negative space, colors, subject sizes, just about anything. You can use contrast to emphasize shit you want the viewer to see as important, or to grab their eyeballs and tell them "look here, fucker".

There's some other fundamental concepts like form, line, and pattern/repetition. But this post is long enough already.
Hopefully this art lesson cleared some stuff up though.

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