While at The Legion of Honor, I found many paintings extremely beautiful and fascinating. Being able to tour with a docent was extremely helpful and interesting. I chose to analyze Willem van Aelst’s Flowers in a Silver Vase. Since I was a child, I remember being captivated by still life paintings. I am not quite sure why, but I was always drawn to them. When the docent showed us van Aelst’s still life, I immediately decided to write about it. Art historians agreed that Art, whether it is prehistoric, ancient or modern, is considered one of the highest form of expression that depicts the artist’s skills, imagination, thoughts, emotions, and connection to the social, political and cultural era he belonged too. It is an outlet to the artists
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It depicts the massacre that took place outside of the city in Spain. The painting is oil on Canvas 8 feet 9" by 13 feet 4". It is painted in atmospheric perspective to create a distance between the different elements. In the foreground we see eight faceless French soldiers firing on a central figure in the middle ground of the composition. The man is on his knees wearing white shirt and yellow pants. He is surrounded by seven men responding differently to the act of killing: one of them was hiding his eyes another closing his ears ect... The man is outstretching his arms and looking haplessly at the soldiers. Just close to him in the foreground a number of dead bodies piled in a pool of blood, and a lantern, as the only source of lightning in front of the trapped fighters to witness the brutal act. In the distance, in the background are located the city and the church which tell us that the massacre was committed outside the …show more content…
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) is a one of the most skillful Spanish artist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He learned painting with the Spanish artist Jose Martinez, when he was fourteen. According to the art historians, Goya’s career course was marked by a shift from lighthearted and jolly to “deeply pessimistic and searching in his painting,” Voorhies. This moving in style is clearly noticed in the Third of May artwork, where Goya put all of his profound despair in picturing the dramatic emotions on the faces of the Spanish
It depicts the massacre that took place outside of the city in Spain. The painting is oil on Canvas 8 feet 9" by 13 feet 4". It is painted in atmospheric perspective to create a distance between the different elements. In the foreground we see eight faceless French soldiers firing on a central figure in the middle ground of the composition. The man is on his knees wearing white shirt and yellow pants. He is surrounded by seven men responding differently to the act of killing: one of them was hiding his eyes another closing his ears ect... The man is outstretching his arms and looking haplessly at the soldiers. Just close to him in the foreground a number of dead bodies piled in a pool of blood, and a lantern, as the only source of lightning in front of the trapped fighters to witness the brutal act. In the distance, in the background are located the city and the church which tell us that the massacre was committed outside the …show more content…
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) is a one of the most skillful Spanish artist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He learned painting with the Spanish artist Jose Martinez, when he was fourteen. According to the art historians, Goya’s career course was marked by a shift from lighthearted and jolly to “deeply pessimistic and searching in his painting,” Voorhies. This moving in style is clearly noticed in the Third of May artwork, where Goya put all of his profound despair in picturing the dramatic emotions on the faces of the Spanish