A well-knit picture is hard to define, but is instantly recognizable when you see it. Here is one, a painting by Palma Il Vecchio:
One of the devices by which this picture is made to look whole and integrated is the use of "passages," places where the figures in the foreground are knitted with their surroundings and the background. A couple of places where this occurs are: Where the dark hair of the woman holding the child is set against an architectural form behind her. A sort of gate is opened up between them; one flows into the other with only a faint definition, tying two parts of the picture together. The left shoulder of the child is separated from his mother's shawl by only a light line - the same for his wrist against his mother's hand. Those are "passages," and they can be found all over the surface of the painting.
Artists of widely differing schools use this device in varying degrees. Maurice De Vlaminck:
Claude Monet:
My contribution:
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