Violence is shown with dark colors and with soft brushes-strokes in Contraband & Treason by Rigoberto Gonzalez in 2007. This artwork is about torture occurring in Mexico, therefore the painter used dark value and almost cool colors in his artwork. The painting has four men positioned in different ways, they are torturing a man, who is tied to a dry and twisted tree. The man who is punching the tortured guy is fat and shows an angry face when he is practicing that action. However the tied guy has your head down suffering all that violence. Moreover there are other people in that picture, one of them is a happy guy with a knife and the other guy appears not care about the torture as his back is turned away from it. In addition all that scene is occurring in big and yellow field like a farm, which is far from everything. …show more content…
There is no hope at that place because violence is painted on the man’s face, positioned on the left side. Consequently that barbarity calls our attention to how torture happens to those people. Another point in this painting is the position of the tortured man. His aspect shows pain and his suffering. This man reminds Christ unjustly suffering because this man is almost without clothes and wearing a red shirt in one of his arms, like a mantle. Also his arms are positioned above his head and her face shows her suffering and his agony. In addition, Gonzales portrayed nature showing bad weather and symbolic animals on the dry tree. Consequently nature is expressed dark as the mood of the painting. Also the possum is painted screaming representing all that brutality. However the white dove, positioned on the left side of the tree, represent the necessity of hope and peace. For of all those reasons Contraband & Treason brings to mind human values, what we believe, critic and reflect about the difference between good and
This painting is able to show in detail how emotional it was for the Spanish after the war. It flawlessly used colors and lighting to show importance of character. Goya was able to accurately demonstrate the patriotic view of the uprising and subsequent war, in which the Spanish cast the rioters of May second as defenseless heroes and innocent, modern-day martyrs and the French as brutal
The Interpretation/Meaning (III) will be written without any guideline points, the aim of this part will be to determine what the painter wanted to express with his piece of work and what it tells us in a symbolic or not instantly clear way. This part will also handle why the artist drew the painting the way he did it and why he chose various techniques or tools.
The painting has an ongoing subject of hostility and peace which makes the viewer wonder. But then as you keep viewing and analyzing you can see that everything goes with what is happening and it shows how the pomegranate originated the violent nature of the painting while the woman is just sleeping hovering over the bedrock unaware of what is happening and unable to protect herself from the oncoming danger.
...ve their sinful lives. It is the ground for strange and wicked displays of man, and even stranger displays of torture by demons, or ones own vices. In essence, this is the main theme of the painting; the dualistic battle between mans virtue and vice.
Within the Chapman’s portfolio violence, abjection and fetishism combine to form an aesthetic immersed in taboo. Their abrasive imagery is deviously employed as a constructive means to overwhelm the viewer’s emotions while provoking a sense of shared existence. In spotlighting the communal fascination with grotesque subject matter, a deeper inspection of the mind occurs, thus showing an intuitive take on transgression. A deviant act, however small it may be, entices an individual to step outside the strict parameters of manufactured law, causing a euphoric feeling to resonate from within. At the same time this act creates an appalling sensation due to prescribed morality. This paradoxical effect stems from the very nature of prohibition, which denotes that its very existence cannot be conceived without an initial violation. The Chapman brothers feverishly explore the characteristics of humanistic defilement and apply their observations with complimentary media. While parasitically drawing from Goya’s lineage, Jake and Dinos create etchings and sculptures that also relate to Hans Belmar and Duane Hanson. These iconic predecessors are deployed as defensive structures, firmly established in antiquity, that lend aesthetics and concept to a shocking take on the human condition.
Frederic skillfully created a good direction for the viewer’s eyes level. The main attention to this piece is drawn to a table enclosed by walls in front of a darkened window, where a prisoner stands up in line to pick the lucky or unlucky bean by putting his hand into a jar. During this situation, there are five Mexican soldiers standing around. Some are holding pistols, and others are carrying rifles. Moreover, Frederic portrays the prisoner who is picking the bean as a person in complete sadness with a sad expression, a beard, a dirty white shirt, and filthy black pants. Moreover, the harsh stone ground and broken pottery add the sense of isolation and violence to the painting. On the other hand, most of the subjects are formed by lines and shifts into two separate facial
Soto’s “Black Hair” is a perfect example of a poem that is effective through close analysis of certain concrete images which hold the key to the foundation of the poem and its underlying themes. In this poem, the universal themes of family and culture are hidden under the figure of Hector Moreno, the image of the narrator’s hair, as well as the extended baseball metaphor about culture. Although the title may seem ordinary at first glance, the challenge that the poem presents through its connection of concrete images and themes is very intriguing, and the themes are made clear through the effective use of certain poetic elements.
The painting titled, “Still Life with Fruit”, was significantly focused on nature. The painting included four different types of fruits, nuts and three different types of insects that were centralized, in front of a column or a pillar. The fruits are painted to depict a loom of grapes, hanging off a stone corner touching a medium-sized fig and a branch connected by three mangoes. To the left of the fruits were three nuts, that were each sized differently. The insects include a monarch butterfly facing the fig, a white moth facing the crusty leaves underneath the fruits, and a huge fruit fly on one of the mangoes. The column was draped with a blue cloth in front of the daytime
... the way that the artwork is resembled in the religious background of the gospel but reconstructed in to a celebrating impression. Throughout the fresco painting it depicts the myth of the Christ’s three fold temptations relating back to the article that “distinction between fresco and panel painting is sharp, and that painters are seen as competitors amongst themselves discriminating also, between the difference in genuine attempts in being better then the other.” Baxandall, “Conditions of Trade,” 26. in relation, the painting concerns the painter’s conscious response to picture trade, and the non-isolation in pictorial interests.
Also, Basquiat engages Afrofuturistic elements, merging traumas of the past with technologies of the future by including a robot in the painting’s right corner. Furthermore, this Afro-bot holds a religious significance, as its arms are held in a crucifixion-like stance. With Xs on its eyes, the robot’s troubled expression and sacrificial positioning symbolizes the death of freedom during an apocalyptic era.
The colors of painting looked very cozy and warm and it matched with the next wall with colorful decorations. It covered one whole side of the hospital, which looked very cool. This giant painting easily caught my eyes from a far distance. And I thought the intention of this painting was that there was always hope for young children like the little boy in the art, since it’s a children’s hospital. This could inspire us that every child in this hospital was protected and cared, as the angel was looking after the boy in the painting. Just like the boy was taking care by an angel, it let the children visiting hospital think they were very precious and didn’t let them lose any hope. The part that the angel was caring for the boy and the boy was holding and caring a bird in his hand made me think every creature was valuable and feel very warm. That was why this art was picked to be on the side of the hospital that had a good view for everyone even from a distance. It was significant that this painting was very inspiring and encouraging to give a
The formal analysis of The 3rd of May, 1808, Francisco Goya, 1814, oil on canvas. In the following written composition I will examine The 3rd of May, 1808 in a context which will allow me to identify formal elements that Goya manipulated to influence the viewers with a specific outlining message. This work was completed in 1814 using oil on canvas medium. This piece of art stands at approximately 266 by 345cm. This was common for historical paintings to be substantially grander in size. Goya’s goal in this specific painting is to depict the sorrow and heartache connected with the Peninsular war. In this specific work The 3rd of May 1808 he highlights the honor of the massacred Spanish rebellions opposed to the savage French troops. This formal analysis will examine the important technique used by Goya to organize societies depiction of the visual information. Within this work I will concentrate on these elements of color, texture, shape, lines, space, and the value to bring about my own opinion of Goya’s work. Using this strategy applied to The 3rd of May, 1808 work I hope to demonstrate a comprehension how to translate what I see into written words.
That is to say, this is a definite example of how art is related directly to the promotion of violence within history. In the modern day this propaganda is still common just in different ways. For example, the hacker group Anonymous uses the symbolic facial mask image from the movie V is for Vendetta as a symbol to support their rebellion around the government. A direct example of how in the 21st century violence is not displayed only through guns and physical fights, but through the internet and cyber attacks which can cause the same amount of damage. Either way, the relation between art and violence will always be used in one form or another to promote a positive or negative cause in the
This work of art analyzed in this essay is a depiction of a rural landscape and a country lifestyle as shown in the painting. The image details a long, yellow, grassy plains and in the distance are three houses. Painted on a canvas horizontally, the scene details a countryside that emits a desolate, yet hopeful mood. The artwork is a two-dimensional, which has its limitations, having fewer points of perspective and planes which could better express the ideas of the artist. The piece of art visibly portrays and simplifies a view of the rural setting by combining meaning and
The poem is structured so that both the opening and end of the poem strike the confronting truth of the slums, such as “Nightfall comes like a dreaded disease seeping through pores” and “he barks like a rabid dog...thirsty for my blood”. The middle section the poem establishes the dangerous and brutal experiences through comments such as, “I am the victim” and “marauding beast let loose… from his cage of