Paper On The Blind Girl

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Created in the 1856, The Blind Girl is a painting that was illustrated by Sir John Everett Millais. The painting was created to address pressing social issues in the 19th century. His purpose for the painting was to attract attention to the less fortunate. They include impoverished and disabled within England, with a focus on young people. Millais portrayed the two as victims, rather than criminalizing the blind girl and her presumed sister. The paintings history and subject matter really spoke to me, reflecting many of my own beliefs and experiences. My personal observations begins with these two girls, resting by the roadside as they go along on their journey, displaying sort of an organic scenery around them. The two are immediately apparent, being covered by a red shawl. The blind girl being the elder one, appears to prefer to keep her eyes shut, while tightly grasping her younger sister’s hand for comfort. The younger sister is curious yet anxious from where they rest, as she stares at a double rainbow that just appeared after a rainstorm that is shown on the painting with the use of gray, cloudy sky. …show more content…

From the letters that seems to be strapped around her neck depicting “Pity the blind”, to the blended and darker color of the shawl from top to bottom, that revealed that the girls were damp because of the rainstorm. Other noticeable features would be the single red with black colored butterfly resting on the right side of the blind girl’s shawl. The sisters’ clothing stand out appearing to be old and dirty, with added patches and tears on their skirts. On the lap on the blind girl is an instrument, appears to be a concertina, which tells me that the instrument is the reason for their travel, to make some money in exchange of entertainment. These details did not become apparent to me until the painting caught my full

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