Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
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<strong>ARAS</strong> Connections Issue 2, 2012<br />
In each portrait the face is slightly shifted to the right. The width of each<br />
rectangle is divided proportionately by the sides of the face <strong>and</strong> neck while the<br />
height is divided by, for example, the eyes <strong>and</strong> the chin.<br />
Plate 11 Left - Master of Moulins. French. Portrait of a Young Princess<br />
(Margaret of Austria?). 1475-1500. Copyright 2000-2009 The Metropolitan<br />
Museum of <strong>Art</strong>, New York. Right - Henri Matisse. French. Jeune fille aux<br />
boucles brunes, 1924. Lithographie, D 448. Copyright Spadem, Paris,<br />
Bibliotheque Nationale; Guillaud editions, Paris.<br />
In the Matisse I see proportionalities between the dimensions of the features,<br />
head, neck, shoulders, <strong>and</strong> the overall rectangle. The plane of the woman's torso<br />
pulls right, down, <strong>and</strong> forward in opposition to the plane of the foliage in the<br />
upper-left.<br />
In the Gothic painting the rectangle is also divided by the horizon <strong>and</strong> the<br />
stone window frame. The plane of the girl's forearm <strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong>s pulls to the right,<br />
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