The Awakening Of Adonis Analysis

Another aspect that Waterhouse depicts in The Awakening of Adonis is the image of two white little birds flying in mid air through a field of flowers popping from the grass, with figures of people . The figures of these birds are located on the right center portion of the canvas. One figure of the bird has it’s wings spread out vertically like it is hovering through a vast wind stream. While the other figure of the bird has its wings outstretched above it’s head further stretched than the other figure of the bird. The figures of the birds are white but not snow white they have more of an eggshell color toward them. One of the bird figures has its head pointed toward the figures of people laying down in the grassy field. As the other figure …show more content…
The figures of the birds show the viewer the life of the painting, these figures add to the assumption that new life is being created or resurrected. These bird figures showed me the true awakening in this painting. Rather than the awakening of Adonis, this was truly the awakening of the life on earth. These birds tie together the entire meaning of the painting, the symbol of bleak winter transforming itself into the beautiful spring, filled with flowers, people and especially animals. These birds show the viewer that there is much more going on than just a man waking up in a field, there is much more waking up than just that man, and there is much more to the meaning of the painting than just the figures that are found in the foreground. In order to understand the true meaning of painting one must look deep and not let small things such as figures of birds way of in the distance of the painting pass there eye. This can also be applied to the figure of the woman. She is a central aspect of this painting and makes up most of the story, and one cannot know who she is without further analyzing the her as a …show more content…
The figure of the women depicted is called Aphrodite and the man of the ground is called Adonis. “ Hippolytus (Greek God), Aphrodite punished, and indirectly caused his death. In revenge, Artemis sent a wild animal that killed Adonis” (Fernandez). After Adonis was attacked by the wild animal Aphrodite came to his aid which is depicted in The Awakening of Adonis. She sprinkled nectar on his wounds until every drop became an anemone. But aphrodite bled too, she bled along with him for she was wounded by the brambles which is the name of the wild animal that attacked Adonis. And as she bled every drop of her blood that fell to the ground sprang up with a beautiful rose in its place, which are the roses depicted on the ground in Adonis. Then when her blood finally touched Adonis, he was born again. Some even like to think that in In later versions, that in the beginning of Christianity, perhaps under the influence of the myth, Christ resurrects Adonis. This is a myth that was celebrated annually by greek prostitutes, they bolstered life against death through many sexual practices. And all of the money that is raised is always offered to the god. A more modern belief behind the painting is that the death and resurrection of Adonis is simply a personification for the cycle of the seasons. Death being the cold and dead winter, while the resurrection