An Interesting Discovery

What do you think about this portrait? In my opinion, this is a great work when all details on the man’s face are expressed lively with the sharp lines. He looks handsome, attractive and astute. My emotion is curious when I feel the challenge of his face. How about you? What your emotion? Because, last week, my lecturer said something that I understand like “human face is good element to attract viewer’s emotion. Another component that contributes for the success of this work is the portrait has a good composition. First of all, it has a high unity when the dark brown background is similar with his shirt’ colour and two these thing is support for his skin’s light brown colour. Secondly, the dominance of his forehead, nose and part under his neck (thanks to brighten colour) help to emphasis his sentiment.
Nevertheless, the interesting thing here is I did not discover the Rhythmic element in his picture at first sight. Did you? Now look down following image you will see the rhythm in the portrait.

It is a surprising discover. Maybe only an artist’s eyes can discover this element. I was interested when discover this website. Now, I think that human face is perfect combination of lines (curves). And these lines can achieve a rhythm.
Reference:
Newberry, 2006, “Newberry Workshop”, http://www.newberryworkshop.com/Tutorial/Joe/joe.html , viewed on July 15, 2007