Picture This by Molly Bang

Author:Molly Bang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2016-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

First of all, the picture is more dynamic. We feel that the red triangle is moving now, on a diagonal path either down toward the lower right and out toward us or away from us and toward the upper left. This sense of movement comes about because our eyes are now encouraged to move. We can shift along the points to the darkness at the right, which has now become a focus on its own; we move from darkness to the red triangle and back again.

Or we can move to the white space at the left—and clear off the page. Because the white area extends to the frame, the picture implies space outside itself. It breaks out into the world beyond.

But notice that with all this moving around, the invisible lines of force are ever present. We are aware of gravity as we move up and down and across the page. At the same time, we are aware of the center as our eyes go back and forth across it; we are aware of the jagged lines dividing the page down the center. The center can be used as the hub of the picture, where more intense action takes place, as an empty area of calm or incompleteness, as a divider of left from right, as the area at which two equal elements join, and so forth. But whatever we do with the center, our eyes are drawn to it and our feelings are strongly affected by it.

We are also aware of “breaking out of” the rectangular frame. Whether or not we are conscious of these forces, we are aware of them. They encourage our eyes to move in certain directions, and they affect our emotional response to what is going on.

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