As mythology has always piqued my interest, Roman and Greek mainly, it is only natural that Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya stopped me from turning the page. This piece has been burned in my head since I was a junior in high school. The painting doesn’t have a lot of color, light, patterns, or textures but it draws you in instantly. It is a horrific image to look at, but the same time you can’t look away at this man savagely eating another human. As gross at this painting may be I believe
influential artist of the time. For a majority of his career, Goya suffered through hearing loss, causing him to express his internal thoughts through paintings he did inside of his home. The paintings depicted many characteristics of the Romantic style with his use of intense emotions and ideas such as death and horror. These romantic aspects were especially distinguished in his most famous pieces The Third of May 1808, Saturn Devouring His Son, and Witches’ Sabbath. Romanticism was an artistic
through this child's perspective. In the beginning of the film, Ofelia and her very pregnant mother travel to a military base near the mountains to live with her new stepfather, Captain Vidal, who is stationed there to fight against the rebels with his troops. One day, Ofelia wandered into the nearby forest and discovered an old, forgotten labyrinth, where she encounters a faun. The faun [Pan] tells her she is
miserable world. The symbolism within the Pale Man’s character is important. It doesn’t only show Ofelia’s feelings and her reality world, but it also symbolizes Fascism. The Pale Man displays the brutality of the period. In this case, Gyota, Saturn Devouring his Son is an intertextual reference of the Pale Man killing children. The parallel of this film and scene, is Captain Vidal (reality) and the Pale Man (fantasy) because they both are brutal and express lack of humanity. According to Pramaggiore
In "Comus", Milton's encomium of John Egerton, barbarity is the manifestation of moral decay rather than a state of being conferred by instinct, or low birth. As one's fall into depravity is a volitional lapse, Comus must inveigle Lady into supping his potion, as he cannot foist the eldritch philtre upon her: "Be wise and taste."1 (p.65). St. Augustine propounds similar ideas regarding the voluntary aspect of corruption in City of God, which shall be addressed in relation to both texts at a later
supplicated, and so a caveman would record his belief system on his walls as a daily reminder of his dependence upon these unseen forces. His superstitions and expectations led him to illusory interpretations of natural events. Thus as his mental and artistic developments advanced, his spirits became gods, then... ... middle of paper ... ... in witchcraft, this revisits the medieval and unfounded views on witches perpetuated by the Spanish Inquisition that we see in his earlier works. It is almost hard