Christ Asleep During The Tempest: Art Analysis

Throughout centuries, art has been one of the best ways that people use their imaginations. Paintings like many other ways have been used to represent those imaginations. Due to the evolutions in materials and painting skills of the artists, artworks have become almost lifelike scenarios that force the mind to create the illusion of the actions. These paintings were painted with the same technique and they both have a lot of movement all around them. it is very catchy how they move the attention from one side to the other especially when looking carefully, it gives the idea that that the artists almost had the same feeling when they were painting these compositions. Though artists may have used similar styles and techniques, these works can

From many of these paintings found “Christ Asleep During The Tempest,” which is a story found in all the gospels in the bible with the specification that Christ was asleep by the evangelist Mark. (metmuseum.com, par. 1). Hung Liu’s Interregnum which is the second painting was painted out of love for china. She stated that “I have been painting in America since 1984, but Chinese history has always been the essence of my work.” (Kelliu.org, par3). Though she learned most of painting techniques in the United States, on her site it states that “Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948, under the Maoist regime” (par. 2). It is arguably the reason why she saw herself as a history painter when it states that “she converts socialist realism into social realism” (par. 2). Their education was also very different. In the website dedicated to him it state that “His early education was at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he steeped himself in the classics and won awards for drawing”.( EugeneDelacroix.org, par.3). As for Liu’s education

In Delacroix’s Christ Asleep During The Tempest the artist used very dark colors to create contrast of the panic going on in the painting. In Liu’s Interregnum the artist used very light colors to project the same ideas that the people in the painting are in lot of panic and struggles. These paintings also are from different stories; one from the bible the other from Chinese history. Delacroix’s Christ Asleep During The Tempest was used in churches around France, as he was told to paint for public buildings and churches(EugeneDelacroix.org, par. 2). France is a very artistic and religious country with a very large catholic population in the times of Eugene Delacroix. It is believed at that time that the teaching of the bible was also made through images. Debra and Ralf state that “life studies of figures representing scenes from the Bible, and symbols related to the Christian faith.” (Dewitee and Larmann 438). This proves that it was necessary to have such paintings around the country for the teaching of the faith. In the description of the picture the author claimed that “After Vincent van Gogh saw this version in Paris in 1886, he wrote, “Christ’s boat—I’m talking about the blue and green sketch with touches of purple and red and a little lemon yellow for the halo, the aureole—speak a symbolic language through color itself.”’ (metmuseum.com, par.1). That shows beauty of this