Answer the following question in 3-4 complete sentences. A room of people. On the left is a table. In the center are a man and woman dancing. All of the people are watching or angled at the dancing pair. The table is angled toward them. Look closely at the painting above. What is the vantage point, or the point of focus? How do you know what the vantage point is? Think about the other parts of the piece and how they interact with the point of focus.

The vantage point can be indicated through many types of art principles. One of them is the difference in size and perspective. The other dancing pairs are angled, therefore, creating the viewer to be less attracted to that which is angled, and focus more upon the subject that is most present in the art, whereas the subject that is in the center. The vantage point is analyzed by the distance between objects, as well as, the location, of the subject in the background, middle gorund, and foreground.

oranienbaum, russia.