The Depiction Of Human Figures In Renaissance Art

Human figures were used as the dominant subject matter in both paintings, however different approaches were taken in terms of the placement of the human forms and its relationship to the surrounding. Human figures are spread out evenly across the lower section in both of the paintings, a sense of massiveness is depicted in both paintings, Adrien achieved such effect with his choice
All the ladies are portrayed with their hair tied back in a bun.

Both paintings referenced the Renaissance approach in subject matter and composition. The clusters of human figures seen in the two paintings reveal several implied triangles and pyramids as the underlying compositional structure. For example, a clear shape of pyramid is constructed from the head of the most left figure to the elongated body of the central figure in ‘Bathers’, and the dancing figure in the centre with the man and woman sitting frontal on Adrien’s Balinese native folks. The selection and placement of subject matters in both paintings are seen as …show more content…
Human figures were kept almost proportionate, but reduced to simplified and economical forms in both paintings. Comparing to Cezanne’s highly stylised and almost graphical interpretations of the human body, Adrien’s approach is considerably conservative, giving the figures both naturalistic and stylised touch. Details on the human body are not clearly defined in both paintings, made evident in the missing details on the fingers and toes. The features on the Balinese folks are reduced to an amount appropriately enough for identification. Cezanne is bolder in his treatment of subjects as the features of the bathers are simply suggested by slits for eyes, mouth and a L-shaped stroke for the nose, giving an overall appearance of abstraction quality. Both artists ways of standard simplification of form results in generic-looking figures, lacking in individual