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Hmm... disturbing. This artist definitely wanted to make his audience feel uncomfortable when they were looking at this painting. What I find interesting though is that this 'demon' actually looks sad while engorging itself with the corpse of a human being. The human could have been related to the demon in someway whether it be by blood or by circumstance.
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Caspar David Friedrich
Most of these other paintings I've found definitely look like paintings, but only this one looks very smooth and elegant in it's style. The sunset slowly vanishes into the clouds which are in themselves just as soothing with the soft lightning spread across the skies and the seas.
One of the people there seems to be the captain of those ships that are going off into the distance which seem to be intact, so this leads me to believe these three people were left on that bit of land on purpose. For what purpose though is the question. Due to the soft and smooth imagery though I'd like to believe that the reason behind this is a good one. Maybe they're a family reunited and the two people on the left were on that land all along, or it's their homeland.
I also like how the composition of the image lines up too. The people contrast with the lit sky and are the central point of the image making them the main focal point. The ships also line up with the guidelines for the compositional grid which also contrast with the lit sea.
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William Turner
"Turner did not attempt to capture impressions of nature such as the driving snow and lashing wind in a narrative sense, but to translate them into the language of painting." I believe this statement in the book "The Story of Painting" describes William Turners work the best, but just to make it even clearer it basically means that he creates abstract versions of real imagery.
The painting above, at first, appears to not show anything but a collage of colours. But then you notice this figure that resembles a ship and that's when you notice that the whole painting is an image of a boat out at sea. The murky yellowish green is the sea splashing away and the red to blue area at the top is obviously the sunset/rise sky. By showing little of the subject and more of the feeling we are given the impression of feeling first and then seeing the image later.
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Claude Monet
I love the use of colour here. Rather than use definitive lines to create the landscape he Claude uses pure colours to make the base image and then combines them in an abstract way to form up the illusion of objects and images we can see. The silhouetted people on the boats is also an effective way to bring your attention within all this chaos of abstract colour combination.
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Jenny Savi
I am so glad we got to Analise this beauty of a painting because if we didn't then I probably would of never noticed all the little meanings behind the details. At first glance it is just an ugly woman sitting on a rather unstable stool with some lines of scribbles on it, but it is so much more!
The big secret behind this painting is actually the scribbles. You'll notice they are actually words flipped backwards, and where do we see words written backwards? Mirrors. This painting is one massive self reflection of the artist and how she sees herself and more likely how most girls see themselves when they look in the mirror, as a woman who is far uglier than what they really are. The legs in particular are morbidly huge which is a part of the human body you'll hear girls complain about most "Ugh, all these jaffa cakes will go straight to my thighs!". Nothing here is there by coincidence though, and this brings us to the 'unstable' stool which is to show this uneasy atmosphere (if you didn't feel that already that is) and how the person herself is just as unstable and on the edge of completely breaking.
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Robert Rauschenberg
Wowowow! I love this big pile of mess! And this artist in general as most of his work is like a big
collage of mess. The way the paints splatter across the place, the strips of dirtied colours, and
the central collage of images all strung up into a barrage of interesting arrangements.
This could be what his mind looks like and it is a display of his views on whatever it is in
those images. If so then he seems to have some rather muddled up views, but with a bright
atmosphere. It's like he can't contain all these thoughts in such a small space so they begin to
mesh together and cause confusion and chaos.
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Georges Braque
A cubism-inspired painting, Georges Braque vaguely shows objects within the mesh of blocks
like violins, cups, and I think there's a portrait of a person at the bottom middle point. The colours
are also quite desaturated, giving an organic feel to the overall image which seems appropriate
as violins seems to create quite natural sounding music.
I've noticed ow the violins aren't fully shown and are being consumed by the blocks. It could be
that the violins represent music and creativity which is being trapped/repressed by whatever
these blocks may represent.
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Jacob van Rusidael
I'm not sure what to make of this. At first glance all I see is the edge of a land with a small village and
a windmill, with a boat swimming towards it. The clouds forming up seem to look like a storm is
coming soon as well, or maybe a storm already came and caused the ship's journey here to
become quite the hardship. The ship is also quite small compared to the windmill so maybe the
artist is trying to say that the windmill represents the village and signifying the greater power it has
to either help the ship or destroy the ship. Unless this is the ship's homeland.
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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
This painting looks like a fantasy piece, or at least an adventure. The main holding the woman's
hand looks like a hero as his head is raised high and holding up this object in a confident manner.
The woman also seems to be quite an elegant and proper young lady, almost like a princess. The
way they dress is the main reason why I think of this to be some sort of magical adventure onwards
to some sort of destination.
The way they're walking also makes me think of them traveling across
a path through these woods. Those men in the background also remind me of quite a few fairy-tale characters where there are these old men, usually a council, dressed up in cloaks that
cover their faces. I would say that maybe the man and woman are running from then, but then they must be really old or they should have been able to spot them at their position and not look so calm.
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Arnold Bocklin
The focal point here is the white figure seen at the bottom left point of the painting. It actually
seems to match up with the composition grid which shows that the right contrast and position
can create an effective composition even in the smallest of details.
You wouldn't normally see a person completely covered in white which leads me to believe this
is not a normal person. It could be a spirit, being guided to it's destination by the seas as it crosses over to another plane. The way in to this... 'place' is completely shrouded in darkness, as if it's unclear what lies before this spirit within these rocks.
Arnold could have easily painted the water so you couldn't see a reflection, so maybe he made it reflective on purpose. Usually a reflection represents the parallel version of what is being reflected. If this is the place where the dead are sent to their resting place then the reflection could be the alternative resting place, like a form of hell, or heaven.
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