1. Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Layering of Contrasts in Paint
... Vibrant colors and patterns rub up against one another guiding the viewer from one form to another across the canvas of Women of Algiers in Their Apartment just as the abundant alliteration in "Beautiful Dorothea" rhythmically rocks the reader from one description to the next. In the painting, circles follow circles, stripes follow stripes, and tiles follow tiles, but the ... stillness and immobility. This layer of contrasts can be linked to the idea of freedom as well - Dorothea's freedom is affirmed in Baudelaire's inclusion of action in his poem while the Algerian women's lack of freed...
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