Salvador Dali's image is reframed on the left. I cropped, or zoomed in, on what I thought Dali did an awesome job of making the piece of art three-dimensional. If you look past the fact that its Jesus being crucified on the cross, he makes you look twice at the image because it looks like as if the cross has another bar going through the middle that Jesus is on.
In the original image, the dark shading contrasts with the bright gold of the cross. In my image, I kept the focus on the bright part of the picture with the gold of the cross and Jesus’ bright white skin. Dali also makes the viewer think actively trying to make out the dimensions and shapes of the picture, which I focused in on, but the other parts of the picture like the people pointing to the cross is didactic, basically pointing the eye to where to look.
Dali uses line and shape where parts of the picture are shaded differently. All the lines that make up the cross create dimensions that look different from certain perspectives. The arms of Jesus on the cross are exactly parallel with the line and shape of the cross. Same with the shadow of Jesus’ arms. When looking at the picture, you could say it confuses the eye, kind of like M.C. Escher’s “Crazy Stairs.” He also puts small yellow cubes in specific areas to make it appear that there’s a bigger cube juxtaposing from the cross, but then it’s confusing because Jesus looks like he is above the cube on the cross in some areas, then below it. Here he is establishing depth cues. Also in the original image, the people looking up at the cross from below look a lot smaller than Jesus and the cross, and the water and cliffs in the background are very small and shaded darkly, which makes the cross appear huge and close up. Same with the yellow of the cross; it draws attention in the image to the confusing figure.
All these lines and contrasting shades and colors add to the visual intensity of Jesus on the cross, rather than a simple image of Jesus on the cross. Great piece of artwork.
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