If you recall my soundscape a ways back, you might recognize this piece by Salvador Dali called Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man.
Originally, I was drawn to this image, as with many of Dali’s pieces, because of the sheer hosed-up-ness of what is going on in the image. I mean, a guy trying to rip his way out of an egg that looks like the planet earth? That is pretty sweet and weird at the same time.
Now, below the original image, is my reframing of said image. The reason I chose to reframe it as such is because in the original image, there is a lot going on. Whereas I simply want to focus on the man escaping from the world-egg, the original image has a lot of visual intensity that my reframing did away with. The way I have reframed the image, too, has added a lot of contrast in the colors. Whereas the man and the egg are light colored, the rest of the image is black. Something that worked well with the circular framing is that, like the egg itself, the use of curvilinear lines creates a sort of affinity between the man and his prison.
How Dali originally framed the image has a lot more to do with the entirety of course and Dali uses how lines are perceived to draw viewer’s eyes to the center. This is seen with the figure pointing at the man trying to escape. Also, Dali creates a sort of tension and release when he has the sharp ridged lines acting as the frame to the softer curvilinear lines of the man and the egg. Dali also uses depth cues such as smaller objects in the background and perspective lines to create the illusion of a vast space behind the egg. I believe he framed it in such as way to show that the man escaping the softness of the egg was entering a much more ridged and chaotic world.
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