External Forces Against Male Depiction in Art Artwork of the Baroque period in Europe along with the artwork from India and Japan have numerous differences. Regardless of the differences present between the artwork, each focuses on a similar subject, the human male. Weather the art be Caravaggio’s Bacchus, Narsingh’s Maharaja Jaswant Singh II of Marwar, or Yokoyama Taikan’s Kutsugen, each piece focuses on a male figure surrounded by important symbolism of the time period. The paintings may be painted with different styles and materials, in different time periods, but the male figure is a constant subject matter in each piece of artwork, regardless of the artists’ background. Caravaggio’s Bacchus was painted between 1596 and 1597 during the
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Baroque painting focused on portrait art, similar to Caravaggio, but also looked into landscape paintings, portraying humans as tiny figures in the landscape’s plain. Caravaggio differed from other artists of the time such as Anthony Van Dyck and Jan Vermeer. Caravaggio’s paintings included peasants, innkeepers, gamblers, and other lower class subjects. The lower class subjects were then depicted as saints and other holier symbols. His paintings were also intensely lit, representing the light and dark sections more harshly than the time period before the Baroque. The paintings done by Caravaggio also appear to be drastically more realistic than other paintings of the time, due to the lack of stylized and idealized background and figures within the artwork. These paintings used lower class models and images to represent the humanness within each symbol and figure represented within a painting. This was a defining characteristic of Caravaggio’s artwork compared to other artists of the Baroque period (“Baroque Painting (1600-1750)”). The typical painting by Caravaggio was dramatically painted and eliminated anything but the human presence, as seen in Bacchus with the lack of background elements. His artwork inspired the exploration of the soul and attracted other painters to paint as realistically as possible (Bazin, 28-33). The realism seen in …show more content…
Caravaggio’s male depiction in artwork is the god of wine, Bacchus, but is painted from a peasant, bringing humanistic qualities into the painting. Compared to Bacchus by Caravaggio, Maharaja Jaswant Singh II of Marwar depicts a man of royalty in such a manner that accurately demonstrates the man himself. Regarding Yokoyama Taikan’s Kutsugen, the image of the man is a Chinese poet who appears within a landscape, which makes no reference to who the poet was visually. The poet was most likely a writer from nature, which would involve the natural landscape background but compared to the two previously analyzed artworks, Kutsugen’s male figure cannot as easily be distinguished regarding
Baroque painting focused on portrait art, similar to Caravaggio, but also looked into landscape paintings, portraying humans as tiny figures in the landscape’s plain. Caravaggio differed from other artists of the time such as Anthony Van Dyck and Jan Vermeer. Caravaggio’s paintings included peasants, innkeepers, gamblers, and other lower class subjects. The lower class subjects were then depicted as saints and other holier symbols. His paintings were also intensely lit, representing the light and dark sections more harshly than the time period before the Baroque. The paintings done by Caravaggio also appear to be drastically more realistic than other paintings of the time, due to the lack of stylized and idealized background and figures within the artwork. These paintings used lower class models and images to represent the humanness within each symbol and figure represented within a painting. This was a defining characteristic of Caravaggio’s artwork compared to other artists of the Baroque period (“Baroque Painting (1600-1750)”). The typical painting by Caravaggio was dramatically painted and eliminated anything but the human presence, as seen in Bacchus with the lack of background elements. His artwork inspired the exploration of the soul and attracted other painters to paint as realistically as possible (Bazin, 28-33). The realism seen in …show more content…
Caravaggio’s male depiction in artwork is the god of wine, Bacchus, but is painted from a peasant, bringing humanistic qualities into the painting. Compared to Bacchus by Caravaggio, Maharaja Jaswant Singh II of Marwar depicts a man of royalty in such a manner that accurately demonstrates the man himself. Regarding Yokoyama Taikan’s Kutsugen, the image of the man is a Chinese poet who appears within a landscape, which makes no reference to who the poet was visually. The poet was most likely a writer from nature, which would involve the natural landscape background but compared to the two previously analyzed artworks, Kutsugen’s male figure cannot as easily be distinguished regarding