The painting that I have decided that represented both beauty and Chaos was the painting Lot and His daughters. This painting represented both, because the beauty in the painting is represented by the realism style of the human form and the chaos was represented in the background by two different elements, both the clouds in the background look like storm clouds and the painter also used an aspect of Chiaroscuro. Initially I believed the author to use this element in his painting to really bring out Lot and his daughters, probably to represent the loss after his wife turned into a pillar of salt. After my initial study of just the visuals of the painting I read the description and historical context of the painting, I was correct This historical painting was used to represent the loss and to represent not disobeying God’s commandments. With the background of the painting and the visual representation of the story of Lot, this painting grew really popular in Europe in the 1600’s. The painter did not use a lot of foreshortening, I believe this to be true because the painting looks flat and everything is pressed up to the front of the painting.
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The painting that I found to be most beautiful was The Architect’s Dream, I found this to be the most beautiful because of the architecture of the buildings and the beautiful day that is accompanied in the painting. The architecture that is painting is from ancient Rome, typically in paintings Roman architecture typically represents beauty. The artist uses 3d perspective very well, and also painted this in the style of realism. Looking at this painting makes it look like you could step right into the painting, although this painting looks to be painting from the perspective of someone looking through a window none of these buildings are located in the same place. The main focal point of this painting is the Roman style buildings while right behind those buildings we have the great pyramids of Giza. While in the lower left corner of this painting it looks like a catholic cathedral the architecture style of the cathedral is gothic. In the bottom right corner of this painting is a Roman style column or pillar and at the top of the pillar is the paint’s name inscribed in the top with the year that it was painted.
The piece that I found to be most chaotic was Botzaris Surprises the Turkish Camp and Falls Fatally Wounded by Eugène Delacroix. I decided this was the most chaotic piece because Eugène's brushwork was lighter in pressure in the top towards the sky. The brushwork was heavier in the bottom toward the battle grounds, with the heavy brush strokes in the battle field it resembles abstraction to me. The paint is significantly thicker toward the bottom where the battle is taking place as if the artist used several coats of paint. With the paint being applied thickly the value of the painting however is very light, the painting looks to have been done in the early morning.
My first impression of this painting was, the surprise attack that is described in the title did not go as planned, it appeared that when the army tried the surprise attack they were already overrun. After doing a little research on the painting I found that this was a depiction of a battle during the greek war of independence. Botzaris was a general for the Greeks; this battle depicted his death, and his death would become a rallying point for the rest of Europe to support the greeks in their fight for independence. Short history of beauty goes through just about all of human history and talks about how human ingenuity and structures have been beautiful in their own unique way. The first point in time that this reading talks about is the first time the humans started to create tools, and that the craftsmanship from stone was just a beautiful form. The next point in time is the Greek and Roman time period, the beauty in these cultures were everywhere, from their architecture to the sculptures. Paintings have always been a form of beauty in the eyes of humans in any culture, the middle ages was very famous for the beauty in architecture and paintings made during the renaissance. The 19th century was also famous for beauty in paintings. Beauty in the world took a different turn at the beginnings of the 20th century. World war 1 called to question the presence of beauty in our lives, machines of war would be able to destroy people and their ways of life, it also had moral questions with beauty. The next few pages of this reading talk about the architecture in the 20th century and how much it transformed nations and how they were beautiful in their own way. |
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