This particular piece of Dali’s stood out to me because it is such a cluster of variation in line and shape. It never allows your eye take a break from speeding around frame through the shapes and color, to ultimately reveal its true identity.
Dali fills the image only with circles and lines; both curved and curvilinear. At first, it appears chaotic, but then our eyes begin to move. The curved nature that fills the image helps your eye to roll smoothly around the image. The circles also create a series of diagonal lines the stretch from the edge of the frame, all the way to the center of the piece. Had Dali replaced the circles with squares, to make an oval framework; and rigid diagonals sending your eye to the center, the piece would lose it’s subtle fluidity, and visual appeal.
The Rule of Thirds, and the visual rhythm and movement go hand in hand in this particular piece. Dali manipulates this rule to produce the rhythm and movement, as you can see in this close up. Your eyes start at the upper left portion of the piece. The curved lines are used to help begin the movement around the frame, forcing your eyes to circle clockwise; around and around This close up acts as the catalyst in your eyes’ journey to discover the image that the painting is disguising.
If your eyes start traveling down the right side of the piece, they are quickly slung back to the left by the lines inserted by Dali, here at the bottom right portion of the image.
The Rule of Thirds, and the curved nature of the lines within the image, both help produce a smooth ad enjoyable visual ride around the perimeter of the piece. Circling and circling until your eye beholds the image as a whole, and the woman is revealed.
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