Posts Tagged ‘painting’

Ren Magritte

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

Does this painting have a focal point?

http://www.artwhatson.com.au/images/members/0013980/Queensland-Art-Gallery--Gallery-of-Modern-Art-Ren%C3%A9-Magritte-Le-viol-(The-rape)-0066476_110509131946.jpg

I have to analyze this painting and I am not sure about its focal point. I hesitate between the face or breasts (eyes in a way). When I first look at the painting the breasts are what I look at first, so they should be the focal point right?

Yes, you are quite right. The focal point is always where the eye falls first when you see a picture. That is the breasts. From there one's eye is led up to the face and then down the hair to the lower part of her body.

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