Horace Vernet’s piece titled Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck shows off the romanticism movement by showing the aftermath of a shipwreck as the passengers make their way from the vicious ocean waves to the rocky shoreline. Like all romantic paintings this pieces shows the power of nature compared to man (fig.1). It is an oil painting on 23 1/4 x 28 3/8 inches or 59 x 72 centimeters canvas. As there is no confirmed date of completion it is presumed to have been completed circa 1825 and is currently in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and on their website.
Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck is a somber yet awe inspiring piece that focuses on the raw power of nature that resembles that of the Romantic movement that occurred during the eighteenth century that embraced scenes of nature. The majority of the piece focuses on the landscape, from the large and stretching cliff side to the boulders that scatter the shoreline. The people in the piece are …show more content…
However, when comparing the people to their surroundings it is evident that the survivors are not the focus of the painting, they are very small when compared to any other component of the painting; they are detailed enough to understand they are human but they lack the fine detail that everything else has. There is one man clinging to a boulder trying to escape the waves and another dragging a women to shore who is either unconscious or dead while another man tries to help them. The one man that is trying to help is in a dark raincoat, wearing gloves and a rain hat which makes the viewer question if he was involved in the shipwreck or just happened to be nearby when everything happened because the three coming from the water are dressed in plain clothes and not as
Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck is a somber yet awe inspiring piece that focuses on the raw power of nature that resembles that of the Romantic movement that occurred during the eighteenth century that embraced scenes of nature. The majority of the piece focuses on the landscape, from the large and stretching cliff side to the boulders that scatter the shoreline. The people in the piece are …show more content…
However, when comparing the people to their surroundings it is evident that the survivors are not the focus of the painting, they are very small when compared to any other component of the painting; they are detailed enough to understand they are human but they lack the fine detail that everything else has. There is one man clinging to a boulder trying to escape the waves and another dragging a women to shore who is either unconscious or dead while another man tries to help them. The one man that is trying to help is in a dark raincoat, wearing gloves and a rain hat which makes the viewer question if he was involved in the shipwreck or just happened to be nearby when everything happened because the three coming from the water are dressed in plain clothes and not as