El Fin Del Moundo

“The End of the World”

This piece is called “El fin del mundo” or in English “The End of the World.”

The original creator is Jose Gutierrez Solana. The painting depicts a point in of a story

where the end of the world has come. This painting is classified as an expressionism

style. I chose this painting because I thought it was interesting to see how the end of the

world would to the eyes of someone else. And how his background made him paint

things like this. It gives the sense of the artist being very religious trying to show what

could happen if the world was to end. All of these things drawn would happen to those

The first thing that I noticed was all of the skeletons taking people. I’m not sure

if they appeared from the

Which have a lot of very religious

people living there. This is somewhat a typical painting by Jose. It is said that he

likes to paint in dark colors so they have a darker more serious atmosphere. This

was the Case because he lived to see both great wars and even a civil war in his

own nation. Which really hurt the poor in Spain. So they started to become the

focus of his art. Recreating bars, brothels, stadiums, ports and other things that

you would see the poor hangout at as entertainment. But it is said that this picture

was a drawing of a fishing/trading port near his home at the time. Of course he

used his imagination and a story from the bible to depict what it would look like if

the world suddenly started to go into ciaos. But this was created around 1932.

My First impression of this piece was completely different then it is now.

Since I didn’t read the title at first I thought this was like a scene from a movie.

Like it was an army of undead pirates attack a fleet of ships killing everyone

including babies. That’s the reason of them attack what appears to be a nun. Even

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the old man trying to pay them off to allow him to survive but they just laughed