Week 2-Line & Rhythm

The first thing I see when I look at this picture is the hand rail. It is very dark in contrast with the other lines in the picture. Secondly, I notice all of the lines making up the photo. Seeing the stairs at this angle makes me think of running down them.

In front of me is the second landing of the stairs in Agnew from the point of view of the landing in between 2nd and 3rd floor. The stairs are made up of copper colored tiles with a black handrail going diagonally through the photo. There is a white wall in the background. As your eyes follow the stairs down the landing and past, you can see the darkness when the stairs begin heading toward the bottom floor.

This photo was taken at an angle so both the stairs that I'm standing on, the landing, and part of the stairs heading to the first floor are visible. The upper stairs and handrail form a diagonal line through the photo and the spaces between the tiles also form diagonal lines. The stairs are copper colored, the handrail is black, and the wall is white. The handrail ends directly in the middle of the photo.

The photo tells how I begin each morning, rushing down these stairs, always in a hurry. One word I would use to describe this photo would be movement because there are always people using these stairs, plus the diagonal lines give a feeling of movement as they turn the corner.

Even though he drew mainly people in courthouses, this photo connects to Honore Daumier's in that he drew a lot of interiors and exteriors of buildings, usually in the background of his subjects, sometimes as the subject. As he did so, he used a lot of line for the structure of the buildings, walls, and even some furniture.