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Visual Framing
These two images, the second one originating from the first, are by the artist Salvador Dali, a Spanish surrealist painter from the mid 1900’s. What drew me to this specific work are the odd an absolutely crazy images that Dali uses in this painting. Surrealist work relies mostly on the unexpected juxtaposition of images to create an alternate reality and really mess with our minds both consciously and subconsciously. In this specific painting the legs of the animals are extraordinarily long and create visual LINES that direct our attention to the center of the painting. Along with these lines Dali employs the RULE OF THIRDS to make sure we are looking where he wants us to look. He constructs the frame so that important parts of the painting are placed where the human eye naturally looks. For example, the visual climax of the painting is the golden building on top of the elephant. This part of the painting is right in the center of intersection points if the fame were divided into nine squares as the rule of thirds suggests.
The second image is an altered visual framing of the painting that focuses on the man in the bottom left of the painting. I wanted to frame this man as a CLOSE UP SHOT because in the original work he is far from the point of focus. I found it interesting that Dali would put something this in the far corner away from our point of focus, however, the mans shape actually has visual AFFINITY with the rest of the painting because his body shape is directing where we look via virtual lines.
Dali choose to frame the painting in this manner because it being framed this way gives the work a great amount of depth. This depth contributes to the overall image of the because it really lets us become drawn into the work of art.
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