We know this because she is the centre of the painting, the biggest figure in the painting compared to the other figures and because of the position of herself and the swan there appears to be more light focused on them. Bathers is different to this because theres no particular focal point, there is just the scene itself and nothing seems brighter, or bigger. It makes us think that theres more going on outside of the picture space because it is not focused on one area. The horizontal lines in the middle of Bathers also suggests this because there’s no cut off of the lines within the painting, they're continuous whereas in Leda with the Swan, the woman at the front seems to be the fixed point for the person viewing the painting, the woman is the first thing a person would notice while looking at the
We know this because she is the centre of the painting, the biggest figure in the painting compared to the other figures and because of the position of herself and the swan there appears to be more light focused on them. Bathers is different to this because theres no particular focal point, there is just the scene itself and nothing seems brighter, or bigger. It makes us think that theres more going on outside of the picture space because it is not focused on one area. The horizontal lines in the middle of Bathers also suggests this because there’s no cut off of the lines within the painting, they're continuous whereas in Leda with the Swan, the woman at the front seems to be the fixed point for the person viewing the painting, the woman is the first thing a person would notice while looking at the