Recognition- North and South by Constant Mayer is one of the most powerful painting that reflect the sorrow of civil war, which is one of the darkest chapters in American history. In this paints we see a Confederate Soldier found his dead brother who fought on the other side of the battlefield with the Union Soldiers. Therefore, the name recognition perfectly describe the scene where one brother recognize his brother corpes on the battlefield in a way expose the reality of the civil war where brothers fought each other.
Constant Mayer who is a French migrant to the United States of America made this paint in the1865. Constant Mayer sudied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris then trained in the studio of Léon Cogniet. In 1857 he migrated to …show more content…
Bothe sides of the conflict are present in the painting in a symbolic way. The artist was brilliant in allocating the figures of the painting to represent a contrast of life and death in a very symbolic way. The artist uses an atmospheric perspective in this painting as we can see the main figures who are the soldiers are closest to us where the mountains and the forest behind them. The painting is a symmetrical but balance as we see on the right side there the old man who is a Confederate Soldier and on the other side we see the younger man who is a Union Soldier laying on a big rock. We see also how the artist brilliantly puts the green frost trees behind the older brother where he puts a rocky mountain behind the younger brother who is lying next to a dead broken tree trunk. The audience can notice the very sad look of the older brother as he is holding his younger one who seems to look to the dying tree or maybe to the death’s angle. There is an empty cup next to the Union Soldier in a way telling us the fate of the Union and there is a gun on the ground as well as some broken tree brunch. Beside the sad look in the eye of the older brother we can feel that there is a sense of regret in his look. This scene repeated through out the history, as where ever was a civil war there were brothers, families, and neighbors killing each
Constant Mayer who is a French migrant to the United States of America made this paint in the1865. Constant Mayer sudied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris then trained in the studio of Léon Cogniet. In 1857 he migrated to …show more content…
Bothe sides of the conflict are present in the painting in a symbolic way. The artist was brilliant in allocating the figures of the painting to represent a contrast of life and death in a very symbolic way. The artist uses an atmospheric perspective in this painting as we can see the main figures who are the soldiers are closest to us where the mountains and the forest behind them. The painting is a symmetrical but balance as we see on the right side there the old man who is a Confederate Soldier and on the other side we see the younger man who is a Union Soldier laying on a big rock. We see also how the artist brilliantly puts the green frost trees behind the older brother where he puts a rocky mountain behind the younger brother who is lying next to a dead broken tree trunk. The audience can notice the very sad look of the older brother as he is holding his younger one who seems to look to the dying tree or maybe to the death’s angle. There is an empty cup next to the Union Soldier in a way telling us the fate of the Union and there is a gun on the ground as well as some broken tree brunch. Beside the sad look in the eye of the older brother we can feel that there is a sense of regret in his look. This scene repeated through out the history, as where ever was a civil war there were brothers, families, and neighbors killing each