Glancing at the picture there's an instant understanding of what the portrait is portraying. Depicting a historical story in the sense that women are dominant and powerful, not only promiscuous and sexual attractions, so if feeling disrespected or unsafe they will protect themselves. The form of Judith body while holding the sword is definitely dominating the portrait and frame. Her full body is mainly shown indicated that she's the main focal point in the portrait. This painting is very crowded and cramped up in this small area. There's a small space with very little or no movement.There's two individual units, maybe three if including the sword; Judith is the main character so she's a large figure, as well as the sword, and Holofernes is the smaller figure indicating that he isn't that important. The form is flat because there isn't an in depth background that seems like its mile and miles away, it's just a plain black background that stops the viewer from indicating something more to be
Glancing at the picture there's an instant understanding of what the portrait is portraying. Depicting a historical story in the sense that women are dominant and powerful, not only promiscuous and sexual attractions, so if feeling disrespected or unsafe they will protect themselves. The form of Judith body while holding the sword is definitely dominating the portrait and frame. Her full body is mainly shown indicated that she's the main focal point in the portrait. This painting is very crowded and cramped up in this small area. There's a small space with very little or no movement.There's two individual units, maybe three if including the sword; Judith is the main character so she's a large figure, as well as the sword, and Holofernes is the smaller figure indicating that he isn't that important. The form is flat because there isn't an in depth background that seems like its mile and miles away, it's just a plain black background that stops the viewer from indicating something more to be