(3) Effect of obliqueness

We do not feel movement in vertical and horizontal lines since they take a configuration against gravity (or stable configuration). On the contrary, oblique lines appear to be falling, pulled by the gravity. The image inspires movement.
 
 


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Figure 458: The effect of movement which an oblique line has.
Figure 459: "VONAL-S, SZ", by V. Vasarely (see color illustration 26).
Figure 460: Movement expressed by ordered composition of oblique lines.
Figure 461: Movement created by unstable feeling generated by inclined compositions.


 

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