OKAY! So for this weeks blog were are supposed to discuss the visual framework of one of the famous pictures we used during the soundscape project. I chose Salvador Dali's - "Flight of the Bumblebee"
Quite unfortunate that the bumblebee happens to be... not one... but two ferocious tigers. Anyways here's my analysis.
ORIGINAL EYE MOVEMENT
INTERESTING FRAME #1 INTERESTING FRAME #2
This painting is one of the most visually appealing paintings I have ever seen. I think so much of a good picture, painting, film, etc... is about how your eye moves through the frame; what you are supposed to be looking at, what your eye catches first. I edited this photo so that its easier to see specifically how your eye moves through the frame.
By following the rule of thirds you can see how Dali wanted us to view the painting. Immediately our eye is drawn to the two tigers jumping out of the...fish? Then it moves to the thousand foot elephant on stilts? At this point you can clearly tell this is not a normal picture. Your eye then moves of the legs of the nude woman and we find her in a pose hovering slightly above the ground and extremely relaxed. But why is she relaxed there are two tigers jumping at her!!!!
There is also a lot of visual rhythm within the frame. Everything above the blue horizon line is vertical and almost seems fast, like the tigers jumping at the girl. The bottom part of the frame is horizontal and cooler colors so it recedes into the back of the frame (depth cues). The girl looks completely helpless and the tigers look like they are about to jump out of the frame. There are also little to no curves in the frame except for the woman's body. This painting overall is a perfect representation of framing and eye movement.
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