The lines created by her arms allow the eye to move freely across the canvas. The right-hand dancer turns her torso around fully, and doing so she encourages us to gaze where she is, back at the center of the composition. Rhythm pervades Derain's piece because of his selection of dance as a subject, but also because of the use of curvilinear forms that keep the eye flowing. Moreover, colors repeat themselves enthusiastically, spread out across the canvas and avoiding stagnation.
At first glance, Edward Hooper's Early Sunday Morning exudes stillness and with its straight lines is nothing like Derain's Dance. The town is asleep, businesses closed for the day and not a person is in sight. Yet it is precisely the lack of people that makes Hooper's composition so compelling and full of suggested motion. The viewer's imagination fills the shops with life. Similarly, the long shadows created by the sun are bound to move. A traditional barber pole is strategically placed in the painting. Its swirls counteract the excessive linearity of the rest of the composition, a similar function served by the fire hydrant. The pole's swirls also suggest movement in the same way that the swirling lines do in Derain's painting. Just as the all-red dancer in Derain's composition does, the barber pole offers an anchor for the eye after it wanders around the painting searching for signs of life.
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