Gericault, David's Oath Of The Horatiii

Art is consider a symbolic of the imagination because everything starts with thoughts. It can be created through frustration, and anger. In order to generate art, people creates life by thinking of ways to develop it. During the romantic’s era, artist gave their personal expression through their portraits. Romantic artists recall the eighteen-century aesthetic of the sublime, it was through this that human nature could be exposed and understood. Gericault, David, and Eugene Delacroix are three great painters whose work which will be explain the noble of sublime, particular style painter choose, and how religious interpretation depending on a style. In the works of Gericault, the Raft of the Medusa from 1819. Gericault shows how

It was exhibited in 1785. This painting look so simple and perfect when looking at it. There is a deeper story within the portrait, it illustrates the story of the three Horatii brothers whom swearing their allegiance to their city, and receiving blessing from their father. They are about to head off to war with another family. Set against a dark classical background the painting is divide into three aspect parts, the brothers who are the warriors, the father acting as bridge between the outside world and the world of the family, and the women and the children who does not want to be any part of this situation. On the corner right side, the women are mourn the son’s departure. When examining the figures shapes of the men and the women; it is clear to say there are a lot difference. The men are more solid, strong and shape in form of a triangle making up sort of determined confidence, whereas the women are more fluid, oval shape curve soft form and as if they were weak and emotionally. David is invented the idea focusing of wiliness to die for a principle. He employs the opposition light and dark, to create some sort of interest as if the swords is kind of an importance meaning in this portrait. This notion of family and personal is showing in this paintings. This painting is of neoclassical piece which it is generate act of war in heroic perspective; the use of color was dulls to show the

This is draw my attention there are a demon with wings of an angel flying, and the hands and feet of a demon with claws. The Mephistopheles is defined as Satan or devil. For this painting to be done around the romanticism time when an artist could paint what they feel or want to express. Most of these painting at that time dealt with horror, fear. It is quite obvious Delacroix painted us negative painting not so much of a beauty, it really depends on the views that this picture is being examined. Mephistopheles was one of the angel, and as people tell stories on how God himself kick Lucifer out his throne. This is all go back from the beginning dealing with religion. D’Holbach mentions in his essay “No need of Theology Only of Reason”, he says “We find in all religious of the earth, a God of armies, a jealous God, a destroying God”. God is capable of punishing anyone who does not lead towards the right way, it is goes to show how Lucifer was punish for his actions by getting kick out heaven. Delacroix wants to paint the images of Satan for us to see, and the material that this image was use to creates was so light and darkness. It is to stare at image right away and to try to come up with some type of perspective on it. Delacroix was more focusing on letting the viewer thinking different from the devil images in the Bible stories, Mephistopheles does not completely