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The movement is only visible in the painting if it studied over a long period of time. Each portrait flows into the next, telling a jaunty story. The rhythm appears to be slightly stacatto, as her face is in a radically different position in each. The movement is slow, but adds a lot to the feel of the composition.

 

Portrayed as a narrative, there is a flow from the top left to bottom right. “Four Jackies” leads the viewer through a story executed very simply, yet perform the needed. A rhythm appears as the four panels have the same form of black outlining Jackie very basically, so what the viewer sees is what he gets, no hidden message. The panels are the equally the same size, being four of the them and the fifth one are the panels joined as one big canvas is the pace. The canvas and images are repetitive and manufactured by silkscreen methods rather than hand painted, so it separates the orthodox conventional method of the painter attaching to his art. Warhol deletes any trace of emotion and along with form and color numbs the sensation of the viewer.

 

I see it being visually pleasing. The rhythm of the piece is evident and it comes through the artwork with such presence.

 

There isn't much movement in this piece, but if there were to be a pace it would be an even and steady progression from smiles to somber faces. A long progression from each image and in none of them she looks the same. She just looks progressively sadder, so a downward slope not spiral. Slowly as time passes she loses her smile.

 

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