Works of art provoke thought, questions, and emotions. Although all art is vastly different, the common thread its ability to create emotion. Whether those emotions are positive, negative, intense, or subtle. A very common theme between pieces can be sorrow. This is a feeling more intense than just sadness. Sorrow affects the whole body and can make a person just collapse. When looking into a piece with this theme the observer can get a quick glimpse into exactly how the artist was feeling. It’s a window into their soul. This theme has been present in paintings from the 1400s and even in the 1900s. Michelangelo’s Pieta and Van Gogh’s Old Man in Sorrow show this theme perfectly. Many would think to compare paintings hundreds of years apart, …show more content…
Michelangelo was an artist like no other. His detail to the human body was almost untouchable. His marble pieces showed details of the human body that were not commonly shown in art before this time. The Pieta was one of his most remarkable pieces. It shows mother Mary cradling the body of her son Jesus after he was crucified. “Art Through the Ages” textbook stated, “Also breathtaking is the tender sadness of the beautiful and youthful Mary as she mourns the death of her son” (Kleiner 634). The viewer can feel the pain and sorrow she is feeling. She is looking slightly down toward her son. Humanism plays a huge role in making the viewer feel the sorrow of Mary. It portrays her as a mother grieving the lost life of her only son. People can relate to that sorrow and grieve alongside her. It shows that daily life problems are not as bad as losing a child. There is a lot of controversy over this work of art though. Many believe that Mary looks too young to be a mother of Jesus as a man (Kleiner 634). Michelangelo explained that since she is the Virgin Mother she has ageless beauty. Pieta brings issues of life back into …show more content…
Both artists show people being defeated by their emotions. The sorrow the man and Mother Mary are feeling is forcing them to no longer be able to hold up their heads. The viewer can almost start to feel their pain and suffer with them. Humanism plays a huge role in these pieces as well. People can look at these works of art and feel like they are right there. The details in Pieta make people feel like they are really sitting at the feet of Mary holding the body of her son and the angle of Old Man in Sorrow makes it seem like the viewer can just reach out on put their hand on the man’s shoulder for comfort. This makes the scene and emotion more relevant for humans. Even though this two pieces were created in different centuries they share the common theme of
...elationship between the people in the composition and their feelings in each other’s company. The viewer is forced to think critically about the people in the painting and their feelings and body language.
The Jihlava Pieta was sculpted of stone by a Bohemian artist around 1400-1410. This composition is formed by a seated Madonna, and the diagonal is marked by a rigid Christ. (p. 32 textbook) Mary almost looks happy to see her once suffering son dead, and this is somewhat disturbing.
Renaissance artists considered the imitation of nature their primary goal. Their search for naturalism became an end it in itself: to persuade onlookers of the reality of the object or event they were portraying. Italian artists began to focus in the area of perspective. An example is the birth of Venus. This connects back to Greco-Roman culture since Venus was one of the God’s of their religion. She is completely nude in the painting which differs very much from the Middle Ages art. Middles Ages art was regulated by religion, so this would have not been allowed. Another example is the death of Jesus, painted by Andrea Mantegna. It truly focuses on the perspective because it makes the viewer of the painting right there as if we are almost in that moment. The portrait is truly focusing on realism. The main differences between medieval and renaissance art was medieval art focused on religion. It stressed world beyond everyday life, used formal figures to express religious concerns, and portrayed scenes of the holy land. Whereas, the Renaissance focused on creating realistic scenes and images, humans were more lifelike, and
many other emotions that the artist is trying to display in his painting. Although we can try and
There are many different types of artworks that express the artist feelings but the ones that capture my eyes the most are the works that are muted and more hidden then in your face. The artworks that scream out the artist feeling do not need as much studying in my mind then the ones that invite you to a quite space to breathe and look. Gaela Erwin works are that, her works are about the hidden feelings that people hide from others.
When Pina dies in the arms of Don Pietro in Rome, Open City the pose can be comparable to Michelangelo’s Pieta. In the famous sculpture, Michelangelo depicts the Virgin Mary cradling Jesus Christ’s dead body. However, in the movie, one of the main characters, Pina, is seen running after her husband that’s been captured by the Nazis and thrown in a truck to be taken away. Unfortunately, she’s shot to death and Don Pietro, the patriot priest hurries over to her side and cradles her in a “pieta” pose. Throughout the movie, Don Pietro can be looked at as a reference to Jesus Christ himself. Even up until the last scene of the movie where Don Pietro is executed, he says, “God, forgive them…end this now.” This quote can be directly compared to the
For Michelangelo sculpture was much more gratifying and he loved getting his hands dirty and laboring in his works. He could apply his beliefs of Neo-Platonism to sculpting simply, out of what began as a meaningless piece of marble. Michelangelo also showed his neo-platonic ideas through the use of proportions and mathematical views, to make the sculpture appear perfect to the eye. Through two of his greatest sculptures are his David, and Pieta. You can see this in his portrayal of David; Michelangelo depicted him as the strong but stead king he would become. Michelangelo also fused Pagan and Christian beliefs by portraying the biblical David as being entirely
In the scene where Theo is escaping with Kee in a wheelchair through the ruined streets, the camera focuses on the main story, following Theo and Kee running for safety, but is preoccupied and caught by a woman in the background cradling her dead son on the ground. This image can also be referenced as a citation to a piece of art previously mentioned in the “Ark of the Arts” scene as Michelangelo’s La Pietà. The image of the mother holding her son is attributing to the statue with Mary holding the recently crucified Jesus Christ, drawing on the similar question regarding the cruelty of men. This image also invokes Picasso’s Guernica, also previously seen in the “Arts Scene”, which depicts a woman crying out as she holds her dead child in the lower left hand corner, which is sectioned off and highlighted in one of the shots from the scene. While the “Ark of the Arts” scene shows the extracted art placed in a symbolic ivory tower, Cuarón puts art back on the ground where it belongs and brings it alive through ancient and current contexts as well as a background for the main
...rspectives. For example, Monet’s Water Lilies allows you to see how light can greatly change the way a scene may look; the soft, undetailed way he paints captures details (Theo Van Doesburg). In many ways, this shows the emotions of an artist better than if all the details were revealed, as the focus of the artwork isn’t just what is painted but what it actually intended to represent. Contrary to what some people believe, I feel that even small paintings may trigger an emotion. For example, I considered the paintings of Theo van Does burg, founder of the De Still movement (Theo Van Doesburg). The simple shapes used to show how simple life can be at times, and if you look very closely you can see that life is made up of small challenges that need to be overcome. Having only black and white shows that everyone is the same and that people must learn to live together.
Michelangelo’s sculpture, pieta demonstrates both Hellenic and Hellenistic qualities. For Hellenic qualities Pieta shows the theme of humanism, by focusing on bring the marble to life by having muscle, bone, and veins within Jesus’s body as he is being held by mother Mary. Through this detail has the entire focus of this sculpture as a creation of humanity. As for Hellenistic qualities Pieta shows examples of individualism and emotionalism. The theme of individualism defines the interest and in the individual and individual characteristics of a human being, which I believe is capture by the in-depth detail within the soft facial expression and the smooth contour of the body of Christ showing muscles and bone structure, bring a real sense of
The painting of Penitent Mary Magdalene was created by Titian. This painting specifically proved to be one of Titian's most popular inventions. His original idea was occasioned in 1531.Titian’s made this painting shows her entirely nude, covered by abundant hair using extravagant waves of lush hair which covers while still exposing the body of the transformed sinner. Her hair is not painted onto the flesh, rather it meets it, her head hair cascades down much like that in Botticelli's Birth of Venus to cover only her pubic area. Otherwise, her body is covered in a sort of hairy pelt, except for her head, neck, hands, knees, feet, and breasts, which are left bare. it is showing her sexual power, with passion. Her sexual passion must be minimized so that. Her breasts are revealed although her arms are slightly crossed holding her hair against her chest; she is seen in a rocky grotto; if it is night is hard to say but the sky is certainly very dark.
The sorrowful tone of the Pieta evokes pity in the viewer. Michelangelo sculpted in such a manner as to make
For example, Perseverance, is a painting created by Gerald Brommer that although it shares similarities with Makenzie’s work like the color palette used, its rigid lines, and poor use of emotionalism, it was able to create its own mood by using a very distinct medium. One of the resemblances between these two pieces of art is the artists’ choice in colors. Perseverance, is also largely composed of neutral colors with a few darker objects that stand out. Both of the painters used the same technique with their color palettes to successfully draw attention to a certain piece in the painting. Another connection both pieces have is their poor use of the aesthetic theory, emotionalism. They both successfully create a meaning and connect with the viewers, but they do not appeal to the viewers in an emotional level. Not all works of art work towards appealing to its viewers in an emotional level, so it is not a lousy characteristic to miss. Perseverance also possesses the same kind of ridged lines throughout the painting. It contains geometric shapes that create a mood, similar technique used in Reverence. However, Brommers ridged lines helped create the mood of the whole painting, while Reverences ridged lines helped express the woman’s emotions. The moods of the paintings are very distinct. Reverence carries more of a sympathetic feel, while Perseverance carries a stronger more brutal mood. The mood created by Brommer was also acquired in a very contrasting manner. He used watercolor painting on paper in contrary of McKenzie’s oil on canvas. Although both artists prosperously created pieces of art by using similar techniques, they were able to have very unique moods by using distinct
Each drawing. Each painting. Each sculpture. It can give you a glimpse of what is going on in the artist’s head. Take the painting “El Autobus” by Frida Kahlo as an example. It has been said that the painting is in reference of the accident Frida Kahlo had where she got impaled by a metal handrail. The painting is of a bench with people sitting on it just before boarding the bus. This kind of artwork, where the artist puts a little bit of him/her self in it is something I strive for. I want to make art that reflects me, or that means something to me. I don’t want to make something just because, I want it to be where the viewer could possibly see the hard work, the passion, the emotion behind it. Things that most times get
Art affects everyone differently, and with me there are very few artists that affect me at all. Vincent Van Gogh’s artwork makes me see another perspective, another world much different than my own. Van Gogh’s life was plagued by mental illness, the extent of which varied throughout his life and is visible is his work. I believe his artwork was greatly influenced by his early life and mental health, especially The Starry Night, Café Terrace at Night, and Sorrow.