more talking - 6a

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All video used in this blog stolen from the Walt Disney doc "How Walt Disney Films are Made"

happiest little town on earth - 6b

all work and no play makes jack a dull boy - 5b

Salvador Dali's Eye - 5a

 

"The Eye" by Salvador Dali, original framing

Re-framing of "the Eye"

 The reason I was most drawn to the original image is due to the fact that I've been a fan of Salvador Dali since I was in the first grade. His bizarre, other-worldly paintings have always appealed to my fascination with the bizarre and the surreal, and he is by far my favorite artists. This image, The Eye, is one of his more inherently spooky pieces of work, in my opinion. For the re-framing, I chose to focus on the most prominent object in the painting, which is the titular eye. The difference between the two images is vast, and it becomes abundantly clear why Dali chose to set the object the way he did in the original painting.

If you take a look at Dali's other works, it isn't uncommon for his paintings to be absolutely bursting with activity, which makes The Eye somewhat peculiar in its sense of desolation. There is no question as to the subject of the painting, however. Dali uses the lines running along the bottom of the image to lead the viewer directly towards the floating mass in the background of the image. Since the lines also start to draw closer to one another as they disappear into the horizon, the lines are also a clever way of creating depth within the image.

Also, in utilizing the idea of rule of thirds, the audience’s eyes would theoretically already be drawn directly to the floating eye based on its positioning alone. Even if the eye were placed elsewhere, and without the lines, however, it would be difficult for the object to go unnoticed. Dali’s use of space ensures this. We are presented with a barren setting, with only a few mountains peppering the background. This complete absence of visual components elsewhere makes the floating eye, strange enough in its own right, completely striking as the most prominent object within the frame.
Dali no doubt chose to use this complete poverty of other objects in the frame to create a much more striking contrast between the “normal” surroundings and the “abnormal” object occupying these surroundings.