Sunday, August 4, 2013

Visual Movement

Seurat, Georges-Pierre, The Stone Breaker
The Phillips Collection
Acquired 1940
Most viewers react instinctively to the expressive qualities of line and these expressive qualities are closely associated with their orientation in the composition. Seurat, Georges-Pierre in his drawing, The Stone Breaker illustrates the continuation concept. First I looked at the tool in the man’s hand and then my eyes went down to the stones and after that comes the carriage that carry the stones. At the end I started looking at the background and the details.

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