Art Appreciation: Patterns in Klee's "Sinbad the Sailor"

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Now when you you know are making an acquaintance with a picture you can ask yourself you know sort of stand back and say, "What does my eye see first?" What is my first visual impression? Not so much what is the story, but what's the visual? And the visual here, the very strong visual, is again created by this contrast of light and dark. And it's this division of the page, we he's even outlined it. So that there's this division between this half of the page and this half of the page. And that's a very strong division. And it's a very clear you know organization of this page. Just as you know Leonardo's Last Supper was organized around a central point. This picture is organized on this sort of plane of you know we've got this portion and this portion. They're just about equal. They're not symmetrical really, but they're close to being symmetrical. He's he's playing around with symmetry, but he doesn't want exact symmetry. So that's the strongest thing that we have as well as this idea of we get very, very dark. I mean this is almost black up here, and here we get very, very light. So the two things that stand out visually are the separation and it's the separation of the shape and then the separation of very light and very dark.

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