The image seen below is "The Hurdy-Gurdy Player" and it is an oil painting that was completed by George de la Tour sometime between 1628 and 1630. It is a great example of visual movement as the arrows on the second picture show.
Below, the arrows, alternating between the colors white and red, show the pathway that the viewers eyes take when looking at the painting. The combination of light and shadows takes the viewer on a path that starts near the toe of the musician's left foot, travels up his left leg to the bottom of the instrument, follows the light up to the top of his head, goes down through his chin and right hand until it reaches his right knee where it cuts back down toward his right foot before finally following the shadow from his foot to the original point that we started at. This clear pathway that takes the viewer throughout the painting and then back to the original point is a good example of how visual movement can be implemented into a piece of artwork.
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