Apocalyptic Landscape by artist Ludwig Meidner is quite an intriguing and meaningful piece. Out of all of the paintings, sculptures, and media pieces I viewed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), this piece by Meidner spoke to me the most. This painting was created in 1913 by the German artist Ludwig Meidner and it depicts a day of the apocalypse and the mayhem it brings. The main reason why I chose this piece, is due to the fact that our modern day society is fascinated in creating movies, shows and books based on this “upcoming” event. To find an artist create a piece in the 1900s also portraying this event is the main reason why I was drawn to this piece. When I walked up to this piece, the first thing I thought
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Meidner did a better job captivating this fear and emotion with just oil paint on a canvas than all of the movies I’ve watched portraying the end of the world. His use of dark blue, dark green, grey, black tones and shadowing almost every image set the tone of the painting. The way he painted his clouds instantaneously gave off the feeling of gloominess and a storm forming. The tone his piece gave off was frightening, anarchic, and fearful. Meidner used bold and sharp lines when defining and highlighting certain objects and the texture of his piece was unmistakably not smooth. The texture is rigid, it gives off a three-dimensional feel versus a typical two-dimensional painting. At times when trying to create a painting, it could be hard to show chaos, buildings and the pavement breaking, but in Meidner 's piece you are able to see all of that undeniably. To show objects breaking apart, he painted the buildings, trees and the pavement distorted, giving the dramatic apocalyptic feeling. He painted men all running away in different directions and although their faces …show more content…
I believe that all of his pieces regarding the end of the world were created due to this impending war. He had visions of how the end was near and wanted to express himself in his art work. I do believe that his painting was created to convey an indirect political message. He wanted to express the looming affect and aftermath of the war through the use of distorted landscape and people. His painting might not have been gory and didn 't show towns burning down or people perishing, but his message was still loud and clear about what would happen to Germany once the war would
Meidner did a better job captivating this fear and emotion with just oil paint on a canvas than all of the movies I’ve watched portraying the end of the world. His use of dark blue, dark green, grey, black tones and shadowing almost every image set the tone of the painting. The way he painted his clouds instantaneously gave off the feeling of gloominess and a storm forming. The tone his piece gave off was frightening, anarchic, and fearful. Meidner used bold and sharp lines when defining and highlighting certain objects and the texture of his piece was unmistakably not smooth. The texture is rigid, it gives off a three-dimensional feel versus a typical two-dimensional painting. At times when trying to create a painting, it could be hard to show chaos, buildings and the pavement breaking, but in Meidner 's piece you are able to see all of that undeniably. To show objects breaking apart, he painted the buildings, trees and the pavement distorted, giving the dramatic apocalyptic feeling. He painted men all running away in different directions and although their faces …show more content…
I believe that all of his pieces regarding the end of the world were created due to this impending war. He had visions of how the end was near and wanted to express himself in his art work. I do believe that his painting was created to convey an indirect political message. He wanted to express the looming affect and aftermath of the war through the use of distorted landscape and people. His painting might not have been gory and didn 't show towns burning down or people perishing, but his message was still loud and clear about what would happen to Germany once the war would