The eye is guided over a bright yellow vertical surface in the left center of the image, at the foot of which is a black circle. Here, the eye follows the perspective-aligned checkerboard pattern of the floor, which leads to the ascending steps of a gray staircase in the lower left part of the image. Above the staircase, on a black background, a formation of light gray and dark gray numbers arranged in diagonal ascending form. They seems to set the yellow surface in a rotation from behind, which brings the right half of the picture to the front. The light numbers lined up horizontally on a blue background on the right half of the picture, make the silhouette of a dark figure stand out, which is partially hidden by the black row of columns of a balustrade.
A convoluted curtain falls on the steps of the staircase at the lower right edge of the picture, which is in clear light-dark contrast. The staircase runs seemingly in the opposite direction to the upward winding staircase on the left side of the picture and directs the eye back to the black disc, from there again to the yellow surface and the pattern of light and dark gray numbers arranged in diagonally rising formations that again drive the right half of the picture forward.

Description

Artwork page for ‘Luna’, Ruth Hillebrand Dane. ‘Luna’ is a painting in oil on canvas of the series ‘Lichtspielhaus’, its size measures 160 x 130 centimetres.