My Favorite Portrait

In my opinion, I think that this portrait of M.C. Escher on a reflecting globe is more a memorable portrait, than the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci. Even though this portrait doesn’t have any color, the shades, and light are beautifully detailed. The creases, and wrinkles on the hands are extremely detailed. You can see that the light is coming from the right, because there is shading from the little finger onto the palm of the hand. The focal point is the window at the back of the room, and my eyes move up to the lightly shaded ceiling, down the curve of the book-shelf corner, to the man, and then onto the hand holding the reflecting globe. The round curving lines on the globe shows the illusion that the reflecting globe is reflecting. The furniture inside the room of the globe is curved, and wavy from the globes round surface. Inside the globe, I can see that there is light coming from the window, because the right side of the room has more light, and contrast in the shadows, than the left side of the room, where the man is sitting. The light contrast between the sides of the room gives a nice balance of the portrait, because one side isn't too over powering than the other side. The background helps balance the whole portrait, because, the globe is dark on a light background, and the hand is light on a dark background. There is a heavy contrast between the light colored wrist, and the dark black background. The left side of the reflecting globe has a different feeling than the right side. The left side has a darker mood, because of the shadows, and expression on the man's face. His face looks stern, and concentrated, as if he is examining the reflecting globe if it were a bomb.